Insurtech Launches Usage-Based Drone Coverage
Insurtech company REIN has launched DroneInsurance.com, with underwriting by Liberty Specialty Markets, providing usage-based insurance for commercial drone operators and simplifying the process of obtaining both base and liability coverage.
August 2, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Technology
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Video: Another Shredded Car Interior Courtesy Of A Bear
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is warning people about leaving their cars unlocked after several incidents, including one caught on video, in which bears have gotten into vehicles.
August 2, 2018
Auto
Colorado
Widespread Tornado Damage In Northern Colorado Town Of Brush
A community has a lot to clean up after a tornado dealt widespread damage to the city of Brush in Fort Morgan County. The storm hit Sunday afternoon knocking out power and leaving electrical lines down on the roads.
July 31, 2018
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Property
Colorado
Colorado Widow Battling Late Husband’s Insurance Company Over Marijuana
A Colorado widow is battling her late husband’s insurance company because it decided to cut his worker compensation over marijuana. Adam Lee died in December while working at a Colorado ski mountain.
July 27, 2018
Workers' Compensation
Colorado
Colorado Driver Escapes Before Sinkhole Swallows Her SUV
A massive sinkhole opened up and swallowed a Toyota RAV4 SUV on Oxford Avenue in Sheridan Tuesday evening. Sheridan police tweeted that the driver was OK and shared a photo showing the vehicle submerged in water 15 feet down.
July 25, 2018
Auto
Colorado
SIU Busts Claimant Who Requests $55K More Than Original Scam Paid Out
A Grand Junction man accused of filing two insurance claims for the theft of the same road bicycle, and another for a home burglary that his girlfriend at the time said never occurred is facing fraud charges.
July 25, 2018
Fraud
Property
Colorado
Pop-Up Hail Repair Company Accused Of Forgery, Insurance Fraud
Vernon Jones dropped his car off at a pop-up hail dent repair tent but says the company never finished the job and forged his signature to get more than $5,000 from his insurance company.
July 13, 2018
Auto
Fraud
Colorado
NICB’s 2017 Hot Spots Vehicle Theft Report
The Albuquerque, N.M. metropolitan statistical area (MSA) repeats as having the highest per capita auto theft rate in 2017, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s (NICB) latest Hot Spots report.
July 12, 2018
Auto
Alaska
Colorado
Missouri
New Mexico
Crews Make Progress Containing Destructive Wildfires In California, Colorado And Utah
Firefighters continued to build containment around several destructive wildfires in California amid a somewhat promising forecast. But one stubborn blaze in the northern part of the state grew significantly and crossed the border into Oregon.
July 9, 2018
Property
California
Colorado
Oregon
Utah
Colorado Officials Confirm At Least 104 Homes Lost As Spring Fire Expands
Fire bosses now say the Spring Fire has burned an estimated 60,710 acres and containment has been downgraded from 10 percent to 5 percent due to new growth from the fire.
July 3, 2018
Property
Colorado
Spring Creek Wildfire In Colorado Triples In Size Overnight, Nears Subdivisions
Pushed by erratic winds, the Spring Creek wildfire consumed an additional 10,000 acres Thursday night and early Friday, more than tripling in size, consuming buildings and racing in three different directions in rough, mountainous terrain.
June 29, 2018
Property
Colorado
Settling Workers’ Compensation Subrogation Claims Independent Of Employees’ Claims
Aggressive subrogation practitioners always look for short cuts. Ours is an industry in which the “bottom line” means the difference between success and failure.
June 26, 2018
Litigation
Subrogation
Workers' Compensation
Colorado
Severe Storm Delivers Large, Damaging Hail Across Northern Denver Metro Area
A storm containing golf ball- and tennis-sized hail left a trail of destruction across the northern Denver metro area on Monday night.
June 19, 2018
Auto
Property
Colorado
Thousands Of El Paso County, Colorado Residents File Claims For Hail Damage
Thousands of El Paso County residents filed insurance claims as homeowners, towns and agencies began assessing the damage caused by Wednesday’s hailstorm.
June 18, 2018
Auto
Property
Colorado
El Paso County, Colorado Hammered By Worst Overnight Hail Storm In Twenty Years
Several homeowners in southern Colorado woke up Wednesday to extensive hail damage. Based on statistics from the National Weather Service (NWS), it was the strongest overnight hail storm in El Paso County in more than 20 years.
June 13, 2018
Auto
Property
Colorado
