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State Wants Insurance Company To Cut Severance

DENVER (AP) - Colorado wants top executives at the state-chartered workers' compensation insurance fund to waive big severance payments if the quasi-state agency is privatized.

Gov. John Hickenlooper and Pinnacol Assurance are negotiating over a proposal to privatize the insurer. Past efforts to strike a deal have failed in disputes over the company's value.

According to the Denver Post, the proposed deal calls for turning the insurer into a private mutual-assurance company, owned by its policyholders.

In exchange, the state would receive a 40 percent ownership stake in the new company.

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