Latest Colorado Headlines
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Study Shows Tort-Based Auto System Provides Savings for Colo. Drivers
Feb 25 2005 // A Colorado study shows that since the state scrapped its ailing no-fault automobile insurance program in favor of a tort-based system, rates for some consumers have dropped between 19.5 percent and 27.1 percent. The study...
COLORADO SENATORS KO CREDIT BAN:
Feb 7 2005 // By a 5-2 bipartisan vote, members of the Colorado Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee rejected a measure that would have banned insurers from using credit history to underwrite and rate automobile and...
People & Places
Feb 7 2005 // Michael Miller Scottsdale Insurance Company named Michael D. Miller as president and chief operating officer. Miller replaces retiring SIC President R. Max Williamson. Miller has more than 27 years of experience in the...
Colorado Senators KO Credit Ban
Jan 28 2005 // By a 5-2 bipartisan vote members of the Colorado Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee rejected a measure that would have banned insurers from using credit history to underwrite and rate automobile and homeowners...
Bill to Prohibit Insurer Use of Credit-Based Scores Defeated in Colorado
Jan 26 2005 // On Tuesday, Colorado legislators “wisely” defeated a proposal to ban the use of credit-based insurance scores (SB 5), according to the American Insurance Association (AIA). “The Senate Business and...
Colo. Airport’s Insurance Jumps after Ebersol Crash
Jan 21 2005 // The crash of a corporate jet that killed the son of NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol and two other people has contributed to a 48 percent increase in Colorado-based Montrose Regional Airport’s liability insurance...
NAMIC Appoints Western Region State Affairs Manager
Jan 18 2005 // Former property and casualty claims adjuster, subrogation analyst and insurance attorney, Christian Rataj, has joined the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) as state affairs manager for the Western...
Colo. Puts Uninsured Motorists on Notice
Jan 7 2005 // Effective Jan. 1, 2005, Colorado now has one of the strictest laws in the country dealing with uninsured motorists. Under House Bill 1193, signed by Gov. Bill Owens earlier last year, penalties dramatically increase for...
Colo. Sex-Change Surgeon Retires After Losing Malpractice Insurance
Jan 3 2005 // Dr. Stanley Biber, who gained an international reputation as a sex-change surgeon until he stopped doing surgery in 2003, has closed his Trinidad, Colorado small office practice because he cannot get malpractice...
Study Finds Medical Costs Driving Up Auto Injury Claims
Nov 30 2004 // A new study by the Insurance Research Council (IRC) finds that claimed losses for auto injuries have escalated at vastly different rates across four states with no-fault auto insurance regulations. From 1997 to 2002, the...
Colo. Deputy Hurt in Rescue Attempt Now Told to File for Workers’ Comp
Nov 25 2004 // A Denver sheriff’s deputy initially told he was ineligible for workers’ compensation after trying to rescue an infant from a burning house, might be able to receive benefits after all, authorities said. George...
CONSTRUCTION DEFECT LEGISLATION DEFEATED IN COLO.:
Nov 22 2004 // Voters in Colorado Nov. 2 overwhelmingly turned back an effort to amend the state’s constitution and gut a construction defects reform measure passed by the legislature last year. In a victory for consumers and the...
Construction Defect Legislation Defended by Colo. Voters Overwhelmingly
Nov 4 2004 // Voters in Colorado Nov. 2 overwhelmingly turned back an effort to amend the state’s constitution and gut a construction defects reform measure passed by the legislature last year. In a victory for consumers and the...
AG SUES ID THEFT PROTECTION CO.:
Oct 25 2004 // The Oklahoma attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit against an Arizona telemarketing company after the company allegedly offered Oklahoma consumers a bogus identity theft protection service, Attorney General Drew...
HIGHER MALPRACTICE RATES LOOMING FOR COLORADO DOCTORS:
Oct 25 2004 // COPIC Insurance, the largest medical malpractice insurance company in Colorado, will increase rates by an average of 15.9 percent, according to the Associated Press. It is the biggest rate increase in 16 years....
Colo. Agent Beginning Second Season as Ski Pass Insurer
Oct 14 2004 // Local businessman Ron Iverson is beginning his second season of offering insurance against the price of a season ski pass in case of injury or illness. “There’s nothing else like it,” said Iverson, an...
Higher Malpractice Rates Looming for Colorado Doctors
Oct 8 2004 // The biggest medical malpractice insurer in Colorado said it is preparing for its largest rate increase in 16 years. COPIC Insurance said it is notifying 6,000 doctors of a 15.9 percent rate increase, taking insurance to an...
COLORADO HAILSTORMS CAUSE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DAMAGE:
Sep 6 2004 // A Colorado hailstorm left farmers and residents with damage amounting to millions of dollars, according to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association. The insurance industry estimated that the hailstorms that...
Colo. Companies Who Violate Workers’ Comp Law Let Off Easy
Aug 25 2004 // State regulators aren’t fining companies that fail to provide workers’ compensation even though some employers repeatedly let their coverage lapse, a state audit has found. In a report given Monday to the...
Proposal Could Lower Some Colo. Work Comp Premiums
Aug 20 2004 // Representatives of the Colorado Insurance Division are reviewing a proposal that could cut workers’ compensation insurance premiums for some employers. The National Council on Compensation Insurance, a rating and...
