Insurance industry thrives in region

Area agents say that the insurance industry in Northern Colorado, like the region itself, is growing and marked by competition.

“It’s very competitive, right now; whether you’re in Loveland or Fort Collins, it just seems that right now it’s a very competitive marketplace,´ said Vicki Pitmon, an Allstate insurance agent and owner of Pitmon Insurance Agency in Loveland.

“Every year we keep adding policies and getting larger,´ said Bill Leary of the Leary Agency. “I started this eight years ago as a one-man operation and now there’s four of us,” he said of the Farmers Insurance agency he owns in Windsor.

Pitmon’s…