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Colorado Lawmakers Review Spaceflight Liability
Feb 20 2012 // Colorado lawmakers are trying to promote the space industry by limiting liability for companies that carry passengers. State Sen. Mary Hodge, a Democrat from Brighton, says there are risks with spaceflight. She wants to...
Colorado Lawmakers Review Spaceflight Liability
Feb 8 2012 // Colorado lawmakers are trying to promote the space industry by limiting liability for companies that carry passengers. State Sen. Mary Hodge, a Democrat from Brighton, says there are risks with spaceflight. She wants to...
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Feb 6 2012 // Centennial, Colo.-based Colorado Casualty has named Lucas J. Bills as president and chief executive officer of the commercial lines company, which operates in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Bills...
Colorado Workers’ Comp Privatization Gets Cool Reception
Feb 2 2012 // A proposal to privatize the only state-chartered workers’ compensation company is getting a cool reception from a special panel reviewing the plan. A straw poll of the task force on Tuesday showed more than half to...
Bills Named Colorado Casualty President and CEO
Jan 25 2012 // Centennial, Colo.–based Colorado Casualty has named Lucas J. Bills as president and chief executive officer of the commercial lines company, which operates in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and...
Hybrid Vehicles Making Inroads in Colorado City
Jan 24 2012 // Residents in Boulder, Colo. appear to have some kind of drive to buy hybrid vehicles. The Daily Camera reports statistics from the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder’s Office show 4.8 percent of all vehicles...
Police in Colorado Warn Of Automobile Converter Thefts
Jan 18 2012 // Boulder, Colo. police are warning car owners that thieves are targeting catalytic converters. Police say the small boxes attached to the underside of most vehicles have precious metals that can fetch hundreds of...
Colorado Court Says Children Can Sue County Over Abuse
Jan 9 2012 // In the second time in about a month, a court has ruled that social workers can be held responsible for failing to protect children under their watch from abuse. The Colorado Court of Appeals last week ruled that Adams...
Colorado Bus Kills Pedestrian Walking In Bus Lane
Jan 3 2012 // A 29-year-old woman who was walking in the bus lane on the outskirts of Aspen, Colo. was hit and killed by a bus early Sunday. The Aspen Times reports that the unidentified pedestrian was hit from behind by a Roaring Fork...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Kahl Insurance of Colorado
Dec 21 2011 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Kahl Insurance Services LLC in Englewood, Colo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Kahl Insurance is a retail property/casualty and risk management insurance brokerage focused...
Small Plane Lands on Busy Colorado Street Near Mall
Dec 20 2011 // The pilot of a single-engine plane managed to safely land on a major street in the northern Colorado city of Longmont after having engine problems. John Pritchard of Lafayette landed the Piper Cherokee Archer II on Hover...
Liquidation of Minnesota-Based Insurance and Trust Company Underway
Dec 14 2011 // Minnesota is in the process of liquidating an Austin, Minn.-based insurance and trust company that regulators say has a long history of financial problems, administrative incompetence, coercive and dishonest business...
Colorado Wants Insurance Company to Cut Severance
Nov 21 2011 // Colorado wants top executives at the state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance fund to waive big severance payments if the quasi-state agency is privatized. Gov. John Hickenlooper and Pinnacol Assurance are...
Colorado Panel to Examine Pinnacol Privatization Proposal
Nov 21 2011 // A proposal to privatize the state-chartered workers’ compensation insurer, Pinnacol Assurance, would give Colorado a $340 million ownership stake while restructuring it as a subsidiary of a mutual insurance holding...
Colorado Wants Insurance Company to Cut Severance
Nov 10 2011 // Colorado wants top executives at the state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance fund to waive big severance payments if the quasi-state agency is privatized. Gov. John Hickenlooper and Pinnacol Assurance are...
Colorado Panel to Examine Pinnacol Privatization Proposal
Nov 7 2011 // A proposal to privatize the state-chartered workers’ compensation insurer, Pinnacol Assurance, would give Colorado a $340 million ownership stake while restructuring it as a subsidiary of a mutual insurance holding...
Colorado Allstate Agents Hiring Announcement Follows Lackluster Jobs Report
Nov 4 2011 // In the wake of lackluster unemployment figures released on Friday a large insurance company is trying to draw attention to opportunities within Colorado in the industry and its firm. Friday’s report from the U.S....
Colorado Workers’ Compensation Rates to Rise in 2012
Nov 2 2011 // Colorado employers will see an increase in workers’ compensation insurance premiums in 2012. The Colorado Division of Insurance announced that the “loss costs” component of workers’ compensation...
Poms & Associates’ Colorado Office Names Regional Director
Oct 26 2011 // Rick Ninneman has joined Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc.’s Colorado office as regional director. Prior to Poms, Ninneman was executive vice president of M3 Insurance Solutions Inc., where he was...
EPA to Push Cleanup of Colorado Coal Plants
Oct 26 2011 // The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says federal regulators will continue to push for the cleanup of coal power plants in southwestern Colorado despite the rough economy. EPA administrator Lisa Jackson praised...
