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Colorado Touts $188 Million in Consumer Insurance Savings

Aug 11 2009 // Adding up savings, penalties and fines assessed, and surcharges on fines, the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies’ Division of Insurance tallied more than $188 million in savings and benefits to consumers for...

Colorado To Hold Workers’ Compensation Loss Cost Hearing

Aug 7 2009 // Colorado’s Division of Insurance announced it will be holding a public hearing on Sept. 17, 2009, to discuss the workers compensation loss cost filing submitted by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. NCCI...

Colorado Committee Evaluates State’s Workers’ Comp Insurer Pinnacol

Aug 5 2009 // A special committee of Colorado lawmakers is evaluating Pinnacol Assurance, to examine what role the state should have in managing the quasi-governmental workers’ compensation insurer’s business. Ken Ross,...

U.S., Colorado Forecasters Trim Atlantic Hurricane Forecasts Again

Aug 5 2009 // The Colorado State University storm research team cut its 2009 Atlantic hurricane season forecast Tuesday, predicting that El Nino would trim the tally to 10 tropical storms, with four becoming hurricanes. The noted...

Colorado Workers’ Comp Insurer Wants to Go Private

Jul 31 2009 // The head of Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance fund says the company wants to go private. Ken Ross, president and chief executive of Pinnacol Assurance, told The Denver Post editorial...

Colorado Casualty Appoints Irving to Regional VP for Arizona

Jul 29 2009 // Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company headquartered in Centennial, Colo., announced the appointment of Brent Irving to regional vice president for the company’s Arizona territory, which...

Colorado Independent Insurance Agents Association Seeks Award Nominees

Jul 23 2009 // The Professional Independent Insurance Agents of Colorado (PIIAC) is sseeking nominations recognizing outstanding service to the association or to the insurance industry. The awards recognize individuals in several...

Colorado’s Storm Damage Estimated at $161.1 Million

Jul 20 2009 // Mother Nature has taken Coloradans on a wild weather ride that began June 7 with a tornado and damaging hail in Aurora and the South Metro area, then pounded Northern Colorado with golf-ball and baseball-sized hail, and...

Points of Light Institute Honors Pinnacol Assurance

Jun 25 2009 // Denver-based Pinnacol Assurance is being honored by the Points of Light Institute with the 2009 Corporate Engagement Award of Excellence. The award recognizes a business’s overall employee/retiree volunteer...

Colorado’s Storm Damage Estimated at $161.1 Million

Jun 17 2009 // For the past eight days Mother Nature has taken Coloradans on a wild weather ride — starting June 7 with a tornado and damaging hail in Aurora and the South Metro area, then pounding Northern Colorado with golf-ball...

Business Moves

Jun 15 2009 // Heffernan Heffernan Insurance Brokers has established a new office in Chesterfield, Mo. – “Wrap Up Insurance Solutions” – which it describes as a full service wrap up administrator and consultant...

Insurance Agents, Brokers: Beware of Scam

Jun 15 2009 // Licensed insurance agents and brokers in California, Colorado and Nevada are being warned to beware of a scam targeting them. The Nevada Division of Insurance, California Department of Insurance and Colorado Division of...

Business Moves

Jun 15 2009 // The Hanover Specialty lines business will be a key growth engine in the next several years for Worcester, Mass.-based The Hanover, according to CEO Fred Eppinger. In the past year, revenue from specialty lines at The...

Benshoof Named President of IMA of Colorado

Jun 10 2009 // The IMA Financial Group Inc., a diversified financial services company specializing in insurance, asset and risk management, added Marcia Benshoof as president of IMA of Colorado. Prior to joining IMA, Benshoof served as...

CEO of Colorado Workers’ Comp Insurer: Private Would Be Better

Jun 10 2009 // The head of Colorado’s state-created workers’ compensation insurance company says the organization could do a better job if it were privatized. CEO Ken Ross told state lawmakers that Pinnacol Assurance has paid...

Nevada, Colorado Insurance Agents, Brokers: Beware of Scam

Jun 4 2009 // Licensed insurance agents and brokers in California, Colorado and Nevada are being warned to beware of a scam targeting them. The Nevada Division of Insurance, California Department of Insurance and Colorado Division of...

Moody Insurance Agency To Market Cincinnati Insurance in Colorado

Jun 2 2009 // Cincinnati Financial Corp. today announced that its lead property casualty insurance subsidiary, The Cincinnati Insurance Co., appointed Moody Insurance Agency in Denver as the first independent agency in Colorado to...

Colorado Nears Anniversary of Its Costliest Tornado

May 20 2009 // The tornado that devastated the community of Windsor, Colorado, on May 22 of last year added up to an estimated $193.5 million in insured damage– making it Colorado’s most expensive tornado. The claims came...

Pinnacol Assurance Issues $120 Million in General Dividends

May 20 2009 // Denver-based Pinnacol Assurance, a Colorado source for workers’ compensation insurance, announced it is issuing general dividend checks totaling approximately $120 million to its policyholders. During the past five...

Colorado Legislature Ends Session With Insurance-Friendly Session

May 7 2009 // The Colorado General Assembly, which adjourned yesterday, took a commonsense approach to insurance-related legislation during its 2009 Session, according to the American Insurance Association. Bills of primary concern to...