Colorado News

The Hartford Rolls Out AARP Auto Product Through Independent Agents

The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is now offering AARP-branded auto insurance through select, authorized independent agents. Previously, the insurance was only available directly from The Hartford by phone, Internet or mail. The decision to expand through the agent channel …

Business Moves

Focus Holdings, Capacity Insurance Focus Holdings, LLC in Sunrise, Florida, closed on its acquisition of Capacity Insurance Co. (CIC), a Florida domestic commercial lines insurer, effective July 1, 2009. Focus, better known by the name of its largest subsidiary, MacNeill …

Business Moves

AIG, 21st Century Insurance, Farmers Group Inc. American International Group has closed the sale of 21st Century Insurance Group, the wholly owned subsidiaries of AIG’s U.S. personal auto insurance business, to Farmers Group Inc. (FGI), a subsidiary of Zurich for …

People

LoriAnn Lowery resigned from her position as president of Lloyd’s North America, after a little more than a year on the job. Sue Langley, Lloyd’s director of market operations and North America, said Lowery, who recently married, had resigned for …

Colorado’s Storm Damage Estimated at $161.1 Million

Mother Nature has taken Coloradans on a wild weather ride that began June 7 with a tornado and damaging hail in Aurora and the South Metro area, then pounded Northern Colorado with golf-ball and baseball-sized hail, and finally wrapped up …

Employers Direct Stops Writing Workers’ Comp Insurance in California

Citing the strain of escalating medical costs on the workers’ compensation system, increasingly intense price competition, and the uncertainty over the sustainability of the 2003-2004 legislative reforms due to recent Court decisions, Agoura Hills, Calif.-based Employers Direct plans to stop …

New Markets

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Lockton Companies VP Receives Safety Engineer Society Award

For her continued support of the occupational safety and health profession and her ongoing effort to protect people, property and the environment, Lockton Companies LLC Vice President – Risk Control Services Manager Christine Sullivan of Littleton, Colo., recently received the …

Former Texas Insurance Company Owners Buy Waco Tribune-Herald

The Waco Tribune-Herald will be under local ownership for the first time in 33 years. Longtime Waco, Texas, insurance businessman and civic leader Clifton Robinson and his son, Gordon Robinson, are buying the 117-year-old newspaper from Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises. The …

The Hartford’s Andrade to Keep P/C Unit Disciplined; Focused on Service

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has appointed Juan Andrade, 43, president and chief operating officer of its Property and Casualty Operations, effective immediately. Andrade will continue to report directly to the company’s chairman and chief executive officer, Ramani Ayer, …