Monthly Archives: January 2011

Here is a new bill that would allow employers to contribute towards individual health plans. SB019_L.003 1.20.11 SENATE COMMITTEE OF REFERENCE REPORT Committee on Health and Human Services. SB11-019 be amended as follows: 1 Amend printed bill, strike everything below the enacting clause and 2 substitute: 3 “SECTION 1. 10-16-105.2, Colorado Revised Statutes, is 4 […]

You have to know the business and understand the role of the auto claims adjuster and then you can negotiate effectively on your own behalf. It’s not that the insurance companies are trying to cheat their clients. Actually, they want you to be happy. But they are in a hurry, with lots of open cases, […]

Shopping for homeowner insurance is one of those nagging home buying details that sometimes manages to slip though the cracks. It’s not unusual for insurance agents to receive last-minute frantic phone calls from title and / or escrow companies requesting a home insurance binder. To save yourself trouble, it’s a good idea to start shopping […]

At the request of Maine Attorney General William Schneider, the state of Florida will move the federal court to allow Maine and several other states to join the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of certain provisions of the federal health-care reform law. “As attorney general I took an oath to protect the people of Maine,” said […]

I read this today on boston.com, very interesting health reform news… AS HOUSE Republicans move today to repeal the landmark health reform law, the first reports on its provisions are filtering in. They are all premature — the law doesn’t take full effect until 2014 — but show, perhaps predictably, a mixed bag of successes […]

Colorado state lawmakers are drafting legislation that would remove Pinnacol Assurance’s tax-exempt status on competitive market policies that some argue gives the company an unfair advantage. The Joint Budget Committee voted Thursday to pass a motion introduced by Rep. Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver, to draft legislation that would require Pinnacol to pay the same tax on […]

This article was on 9news in Denver. DENVER – Gov. Bill Ritter says travel records released and reviewed by 9Wants to Know Thursday that show three Pinnacol Assurance board members, executives, employees and spouses spent $318,717 golfing, dining and drinking during a trip at a luxury resort last year on the firm’s dime demonstrate “extremely […]