Latest Colorado Headlines
All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tort Reformers Look to Score in States after Washington Strikes Out
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Acordia Names Central Region Controller
Feb 27 2004 // Acordia, Inc. announced today that Renita Wolf is the new Vice President, Regional Controller for Acordia’s Central Region. Wolf is responsible for business planning, reporting, accounting and financial statements....
Spotlight on Colorado
Feb 9 2004 // I recently had the opportunity to interview Colorado Commissioner Doug Dean to discuss the most prominent issues facing the Colorado insurance market. While Colorado may not be the hotbed of insurance maladies (like, say,...
Talking Tort with Colorado Commissioner Doug Dean
Feb 9 2004 // Washington Governor Bill Owens appointed Doug Dean commissioner of Insurance in January 2003. As commissioner, Dean heads the Division of Insurance, which is one of eight divisions within the Department of Regulatory...
More than the Denver Broncos and a Rocky Mountain High
Feb 9 2004 // The United States Census Bureau’s Census 2000 estimated the population of the State of Colorado at 4,301,261. Approximately 87 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 33 percent had...
Colorado Top 40 Commercial & Private Passenger Auto Insurers
Feb 9 2004 // The information provided below was taken from the 2002 Colorado Insurance Industry Statistical Report. All figures quoted are acquired from information filed by each company with the Colorado Division of Insurance, and the...
Colorado Motorists Save Under Tort-based System
Feb 9 2004 // A new study by the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) revealed a 15-27 percent savings for Colorado motorists under the state’s new tort-based automobile insurance system. The PCI, in conjunction...
BenefitMall Completes Acquisition of Colorado Group Services
Feb 3 2004 // BenefitMall, one of the nation’s leading broker services companies, announced that it has purchased the assets of Colorado Group Services (CGS), a full-service general agency that has served Colorado’s...
Community First Acquires Colorado Insurance Agency
Jan 5 2004 // Community First Bankshares Inc., through its affiliate, Community First Insurance Inc., has acquired Arnold & Arnold, Inc., Littleton, Colo. Community First also has acquired an insurance book of business from...
NAII Study Shows Significant Savings for Colo. Motorists
Dec 23 2003 // The majority of Colorado motorists have received savings of 15 – 27 percent following the state’s transition to a tort-based automobile insurance system in July, according to a study conducted by the National...
Pinnacol Assurance To Reach Division of Insurance Surplus Goal
Dec 18 2003 // Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance, announced today the company is about to reach its long-term surplus goal — several years ahead of schedule. Pinnacol...
MOODY INSURANCE NOTES LARGE DIVIDEND FOR COLO. ROOFING ASSOCIATION:
Dec 15 2003 // Moody Insurance Agency, which specializes in bonding services for contractors, risk management and insurance, announced a $475,236 dividend for 17 members of its Colorado Roofing Association Workers’ Compensation...
Moody Insurance Notes Large Dividend for Colorado Roofing Assoc.
Nov 19 2003 // Moody Insurance Agency, which specializes in bonding services for contractors, risk management, and insurance, announced a $475,236 dividend for 17 members of its Colorado Roofing Association Workers’ Compensation...
Do Not Call Legislation: Are You in Compliance’
Nov 17 2003 // In this ever-changing world of privacy regulation and legislation, many in the insurance industry are left wondering, ‘Where do I fit in?’ There are a number of insurance agencies that use telemarketing to...
Do Not Call Legislation: Are You in Compliance’
Nov 3 2003 // In this ever-changing world of privacy regulation and legislation, many in the insurance industry are left wondering, ‘Where do I fit in?’ There are a number of insurance agencies that use telemarketing to...
St. Paul Opens Colorado Springs Service Center For Small Business Accounts
Oct 31 2003 // As part of The St. Paul Companies’ continued expansion into the small business insurance marketplace, the company announced recently the opening of a Commercial Service Center for its small business customers and...
Community First Acquires Colo. Agency
Oct 3 2003 // Fargo, N.D.-based insurer Community First Insurance Inc. has acquired the Summit Insurance Group, located in Frisco, Colo., with offices in Leadville and Vail. “This purchase marks our 17th insurance acquisition...
Colo. Workers’ Comp Loss Costs May Decrease
Aug 27 2003 // Workers’ compensation costs for some Colorado employers may decrease later this year. Colorado Insurance Commissioner Doug Dean announced that the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has filed an...
Colo.-based ICAT Announces Two New Staff Additions
Aug 21 2003 // Boulder, Colo.-based International Catastrophe Insurance Managers, LLC (ICAT), announced that John Beck and John Johnson have been appointed to the position of senior vice president and regional executive officer for the...
TEXAS CO. GUILTY OF WC FRAUD:
Jul 21 2003 // Travis County District Judge Patrick Keel has found that a San Antonio janitorial company lied about its payroll to get workers’ compensation coverage so it could pursue lucrative government contracts. According to...
