Latest Colorado Headlines
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Insurers to Fight Credit Scoring Ban on Colo. House Floor
Jan 28 2008 // Legislation that would prohibit insurers’ use of credit information narrowly advanced out of the Colorado House Business Affairs and Labor Committee Thursday on a 6-5 vote. According to the Property Casualty Insurers...
Colorado Mandates Electronic Rate Filings
Jan 18 2008 // The Colorado Division of Insurance announced that property/casualty and health insurance rate filings submitted in paper form after Jan. 1, 2008 will be returned for noncompliance. House Bill 07-1234, which took effect...
Colorado’s Van Gilder Adds Three to Staff
Dec 18 2007 // Denver-based Van Gilder has added three persons to its staff. Tony Dodd has joined the firm as an account executive specializing in homeowner association risk management programs. Kyle Krisman has assumed the role of...
Colorado Supreme Court Says Lack of Seatbelt Use Can Limit Damage Awards
Dec 6 2007 // The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that a jury should consider a person’s failure to use a seatbelt when determining damages for pain and suffering resulting from an automobile accident. In Valdez v. Pringle, a...
Wells Fargo Names Miceli Benefits Practice Leader for Colorado
Nov 9 2007 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services announced the appointment of Dennis Miceli to the position of employee benefits practice leader for the company’s Colorado locations. Miceli will be based out of the company’s...
Colo. Farms Ordered to Surrender Records in Insurance Investigation
Oct 17 2007 // Three San Luis Valley, Colo., farms have been ordered to turn over records to a federal investigator looking into whether they illegally sold potatoes after collecting up to $1.3 million in federal insurance payments on...
Colo. Releases Tools for Consumers to Check Insurance Company Complaints
Sep 27 2007 // The Colorado Division of Insurance has released two references to help consumers make more informed decisions about buying insurance: an Interactive Complaint Ratio search tool and the Consumer Complaint Ratio Report. The...
Pastor Appears in Colo. Court on Fraud Charges
Sep 25 2007 // A prominent pastor accused of filing fraudulent life insurance claims to funnel money to church groups he controlled appeared in court in Centennial, Colo. Acen Phillips, 72, was accompanied by defense lawyer Gary Lozow...
Colorado Forecaster Calls for 5 More Atlantic Hurricanes
Sep 10 2007 // Hurricane expert William Gray downgraded his 2007 Atlantic storms forecast slightly, but he still predicted above-average activity for the rest of the season, with five more hurricanes, two of them major. As Hurricane...
Ohio Casualty officially joins the Liberty Mutual agency family
Sep 3 2007 // With $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets now largest regional independent agency. Boston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now the largest regional provider of property and casualty insurance...
News Currents
Sep 3 2007 // Ohio Casualty officially joins the Liberty Mutual agency family With $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets now largest regional independent agency Boston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now...
Colo. Hail Damage Up to $60 Million
Aug 30 2007 // Losses from hail in Colorado has been tallied at $60 million, up from figures announced earlier this week. An insurance group says hail that battered Pueblo and Colorado Springs last week did almost $60 million in damage,...
Liberty Mutual Realigns Agency Companies to Welcome Ohio Casualty
Aug 27 2007 // Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group finalized its acquisition of Ohio Casualty Corp. on Friday, Aug. 24, 2007 and immediately announced a realignment of its $5.9 billion net premium regional agency company organization to...
Colo. Hail Damage Tops $19 Million
Aug 27 2007 // A storm that brought hail the size of half dollars caused at least $19.4 million in damages in the Pueblo, Colo., area, based on claims made to one insurance company. May Hendershot of State Farm Insurance said almost...
Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Acquires Colorado’s Brown/Raynor Agency
Aug 1 2007 // Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co. of Richmond, Virginia, has acquired the property/casualty insurance agency Brown/Raynor Corp. of Colorado. Terms of the transaction, which closed on July 31, 2007, were not disclosed. Founded in...
Business Moves
Jul 23 2007 // Edgewood Partners, Calco Insurance Edgewood Partners Insurance Center, a California retail property and casualty and benefits insurance brokerage firm announced an agreement in principle has been reached with Calco...
Encompass Rolls Out Product in Colorado
Jul 17 2007 // Encompass Insurance, part of the Allstate group of companies, has developed a product specifically for Colorado drivers and homeowners, called Encompass Edge. Encompass Edge, through a pricing model, is designed to provide...
Lightning Striking Can be Frightening for iPod, Cell Phone Users
Jul 13 2007 // Listen to an iPod during a storm and you may get more than electrifying tunes. A Canadian jogger suffered wishbone-shaped chest and neck burns, ruptured eardrums and a broken jaw when lightning traveled through his music...
Hub Acquires Colorado’s Steel City Agency
Jul 6 2007 // Hub International Limited has purchased Pueblo, Colorado-based Steel City Agency. SCA’s four offices in Colorado will expand the presence of Hub International Southwest to the Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Trinidad...
State Farm to cut Colo. auto rates 7.2%
Jul 2 2007 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. announced it is lowering its overall automobile insurance rate level in Colorado an average of 7.2 percent beginning July 16. The rate reduction represents an annual savings of...
