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Jan 25 2009 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) named Russell Johnston president and CEO of AIG Environmental, a unit of AIG Commercial Insurance. Johnston joined AIG in 1990 serving in senior management positions within...
Willis HRH Appoints Leaders for South Central and West Regions
Jan 23 2009 // Willis HRH, the North American retail division of Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker, has named Mike Phillips as regional growth leader for its South Central Region and David Hofele as regional growth...
Colorado Evaluating Proposed Insurance Rate Filing Rule
Jan 16 2009 // The Colorado Division of Insurance continues to evalute regulation 5-1-10, Rate and Rule Filing Submission Requirements for Property and Casualty Insurance. The rule was proposed to “ensure that property and casualty...
Colorado Casualty Introduces Workers’ Compensation to Product Line
Jan 13 2009 // Englewood, Colo.-based Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, announced that it is adding workers’ compensation coverage to its commercial insurance product line. Workers’...
Gusts Blow in Colorado’s 4th Most Expensive Windstorm, Damage Estimated at $7M
Jan 5 2009 // Some Colorado residents spent the New Year making repairs and calling their insurance companies after strong winds pounded the Front Range, Colorado Springs, the Eastern Plains and Southern Wyoming on Dec. 30, 2008. A...
Colorado Proposes Rate Filing Changes
Jan 5 2009 // Colorado’s Division of Insurance is proposing to amend regulation 5-1-10, Rate and Rule Filing Submission Requirements for Property and Casualty Insurance, “to ensure that property and casualty insurance rates...
Colorado Indicts Man in Asbestos Case
Dec 30 2008 // Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced that the Statewide Grand Jury has indicted Richard Oliver on four felony charges involving asbestos removal and disposal. The charges include causing or contributing to a...
Top Regional Stories of 2008
Dec 21 2008 // West California Passed Agent-Broker Law The most notable bill affecting California agents was AB 2956, which clarifies the duties of an insurance agent versus a broker. Prior to the new law, confusion existed within the...
The Buckner Co. Names Rons Underwriter of the Year
Dec 18 2008 // The Buckner Company, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, named Kimberly Rons, commercial lines senior underwriter for Colorado Casualty, as Underwriter of the Year. The Buckner Company nominated a dozen underwriter finalists...
Colo. Forecasters Expect Busy 2009 Hurricane Season
Dec 16 2008 // Hurricane forecasters at Colorado State University on Wednesday predicted above-average activity in the Atlantic next year: 14 named storms, including seven hurricanes — three major. The 50-year average is 9.6 named...
Safeco and Colorado Casualty Announce New Mountain Region Operations
Nov 19 2008 // Safeco Insurance and Colorado Casualty, both Liberty Mutual Agency Markets companies, announced key management appointments to lead their respective personal and commercial lines operations in their Mountain...
New Colorado Car Insurance Law Drives Consumer Education
Nov 11 2008 // Starting this month, the mail and inboxes of Colorado drivers will begin filling up with notices from their car insurance companies informing customers of a new “opt-out” requirement due to a new Colorado Law...
IMA of Colorado Appoints Harvath Commercial Lines Division Manager
Oct 31 2008 // IMA of Colorado Inc. has announced that Sandy Harvath has been promoted to Commercial Lines Division manager. Harvath has been with IMA since 2003, most recently serving as an account executive for IMA’s Construction...
Colorado Orders 16% Decrease in Workers’ Comp Loss Costs
Oct 20 2008 // Colorado employers may be paying lower premiums for workers’ compensation insurance in 2009, because a significant component of workers’ compensation premiums, known as loss costs, will drop 16 percent, the...
Colorado Orders 16% Decrease in Workers Comp Loss Costs
Oct 13 2008 // Colorado employers may be paying lower premiums for workers compensation insurance in 2009, due to the announcement that a significant component of workers’ compensation premiums, known as loss costs, will drop 16...
Coloradans Spent $26 Billion in Insurance Premiums in 2007
Sep 22 2008 // During 2007, Colorado citizens paid more than 26 billion dollars in insurance premium to approximately 1,306 companies, with 27 companies accounting for more than 50 percent of that total, according to the Colorado...
Colorado Forecasters Call for Four Hurricanes in September
Sep 5 2008 // Colorado hurricane researchers are forecasting five tropical storms in the Atlantic in September, including four hurricanes, two of them major. Former Colorado State University climatologist William Gray said that would be...
Coloradans Spent $26 Billion in Insurance Premiums in 2007
Aug 29 2008 // Where do Coloradans spend their insurance dollars? During 2007, Colorado citizens paid over 26 billion dollars in premium to approximately 1,306 companies, with 27 companies accounting for more than 50 percent of that...
Colorado Division of Insurance Recovers $7 Million for Insurance
Aug 26 2008 // The Department of Regulatory Agencies, Colorado Division of Insurance reported that it has recovered $7 million for consumers in the first half of 2008. The total represents premium savings and recovered benefits to...
Colorado Ranks High on Tornado Charts
Aug 21 2008 // Tornadoes are usually classified using the Fujita Tornado Scale, or FScale developed by Dr. T. Theodore Fujita at the University of Chicago in 1971, CDS said. Using FScale classifications, the study looked at whether there...
