Latest Colorado Headlines
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Safety Engineers Help Colorado School
Nov 9 2009 // One day while visiting a construction site operated by a client’s vocational technical school, American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Colorado Chapter member Mark Semonisck, CSP, assistant vice president...
Colorado Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop
Nov 4 2009 // Colorado employers will be looking forward to additional financial relief next year by paying lower premiums for workers compensation insurance due to the announcement that a significant component of workers compensation...
Colorado’s Workers’ Comp Fund Pinnacol: Swagger and Success Invite Scrutiny
Nov 1 2009 // If there is one thing that Colorado’s quasi-public workers compensation provider, Pinnacol Assurance, has not been accused of being, it is being timid. When the state government tried early this year to tap the...
Colorado’s IMA Financial Hires Executive
Oct 26 2009 // The IMA Financial Group, Inc., a diversified financial services company specializing in insurance, asset and risk management with 450 employees and offices in seven markets across the nation, today announced that Lindsey...
Pinnacol Chief Blasts Colorado State Legislators’ Hearings
Oct 20 2009 // The chief executive of Pinnacol Assurance contends that the interim committee hearings investigating the state workers’ compensation insurer were biased in favor of injured workers. The committee, which was comprised...
Colorado Fire in Historic Mall Investigated
Oct 20 2009 // The cause of a fire that destroyed a historic mall in Colorado’s Estes Park, at the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park, is under investigation, according to the Denver Post. The newspaper is reporting that the...
Insurance Broker Pleads to Embezzling in Colorado
Oct 12 2009 // A Hawaii resident has pleaded guilty in Denver to an embezzling charge. Fifty-nine-year-old Barney T. Lyles was accused of embezzling from an employee benefit fund when he was chief executive officer at the defunct...
Colorado Considers Laws for Pinnacol
Oct 5 2009 // Colorado lawmakers have filed bills to require better oversight for the state’s workers’ compensation insurer, saying they can’t ignore problems uncovered during weeks of hearings this summer. The...
Deer Crashes Increase in Colorado
Oct 1 2009 // State Farm Insurance says the number of collisions between vehicles and deer in Colorado has increased by 19 percent since 2004. The study released this week by the insurance company says most of the car accidents on...
Colorado’s MeyersDining Insurance Bought By CBIZ
Oct 1 2009 // Cleveland, Ohio-based employee benefits and accounting services firm CBIZ, Inc. has acquired MeyersDining, LLC, an insurance agency located in Boulder, Colorado, the company announced. Founded in 2005 with the merger of...
Colorado’s Pinnacol Weighed Purchase of Other Insurers
Sep 25 2009 // Documents show a state-chartered workers compensation insurer in Colorado once planned to seek permission to buy other insurance companies but later backed off. The Denver Post reported Wednesday that Pinnacol Assurance...
Colorado’s Pinnacol Defends Actions
Sep 21 2009 // Executives from Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance company defended themselves against accusations of lavish spending and excess profits during a legislative hearing and they told...
Colorado’s Pinnacol Denies Need for Change
Sep 18 2009 // The head of Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance company is telling state lawmakers to leave his company alone. Pinnacol Assurance President Ken Ross issued a statement Wednesday saying...
Willis HRH Appoints Richardson in Colorado
Sep 11 2009 // Willis HRH, the North American retail business of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, has named Jason M. Richardson as managing partner of its Colorado operations. In his new role, Richardson will be responsible...
Colorado Officials Defend Pinnacol Actions
Sep 8 2009 // Executives from Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance company defended themselves against accusations of lavish spending and excess profits on Friday and they told lawmakers it would be...
Colorado’s Pinnacol Under Scrutiny
Sep 7 2009 // Colorado’s dominant workers compensation insurer is defending its spending on travel and entertainment for its agents, telling Colorado lawmakers it’s good for morale and helps lower costs in the long...
People
Sep 7 2009 // Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company headquartered in Centennial, Colo., has appointed Brent Irving to regional vice president for the company’s Arizona territory, which includes Nevada...
Colorado Lawmakers Hold Pinnacol Hearing
Sep 1 2009 // Colorado lawmakers heard from injured workers about their experiences with workers’ compensation on Monday. They gave testimony that the Denver Daily News called “horror” stories and...
Colorado Electricity Dam Fire Results in Indictment
Aug 31 2009 // Xcel Energy, Inc., Public Service Company of Colorado, RPI Coating, Inc., and two men were indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver late Friday on charges that the defendants violated workplace safety and health rules...
Colorado Workers’ Compensation Insurer Pinnacol Defends Agent Perks
Aug 17 2009 // Colorado’s dominant workers compensation insurer last week defended its spending on travel and entertainment for its agents, telling Colorado lawmakers it’s good for morale and helps lower costs in the long...
