December 5, 2012
Colorado officials say health care reform has given them the power to curb insurance rate hikes. Those curbs helped the state block a 24 percent increase request by Cigna. According to the Denver Post Cigna wanted to raise rates for …
November 28, 2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday announced charges against the former CEO of a Denver, Colo.-based oil-and-gas company at the center of an insider trading scheme involving a Colorado insurance executive that the SEC began prosecuting last month. According …
November 27, 2012
Colorado now ranks among the top 10 for the highest share of homeowners insurance claims paid out due to catastrophes. The Insurance Research Council says catastrophes triggered only 26 percent of the claims made on homeowner policies from 1997 to …
November 26, 2012
A company headed by a Colorado professor who invented a strategy board game has won a $1.6 million patent infringement verdict. The Gazette reported that Michael Larson developed a game call Khet, a strategy board game using lasers and mirrors. …
November 19, 2012
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. says a lawsuit alleging the Colorado- based company has failed to pay overtime to hundreds of employees is frivolous. The class-action complaint filed Thursday in federal court in New York says Chipotle misclassified its “apprentices” as …
November 13, 2012
Authorities say a 34-year-old man who was thrown out of a Lakewood, Colo. bar for acting belligerently was found injured and unresponsive in a nearby parking lot and was later pronounced dead at a hospital. The Denver Post reported the …
November 7, 2012
Economists say a wildfire that burned 346 homes and scorched 28 square miles in the Colorado Springs area over the summer could provide an economic boost over the next five years. Insurance claims for the contents and homes damaged in …
November 6, 2012
The former chief executive of Colorado-based Van Gilder Insurance Corp. who is charged with five counts of insider trading is taking an indefinite leave of absence as an employee of the company and as a member of its board of …
November 5, 2012
The father of the youngest person killed in the Colorado theater shootings is the latest to file a lawsuit in federal court against the theater operator. The Denver Post reported 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan’s father, Ian Sullivan, filed his lawsuit against …
November 2, 2012
The former chief executive of Van Gilder Insurance Corp. in Colorado is set to go to trial Jan. 2 on five counts of insider trading. The Denver Post reported Michael Van Gilder pleaded not guilty to the charges Wednesday in …