All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 9 2022 // Rockford, IL., April 25, 2022 — Insurance King is a high-volume non-standard insurance agency and they are taking additional steps to educate their customers with one of their carriers of the potential for a 500%...
May 2 2022 // Dear Mary,Your team is in the thick of recruiting every day, not only for our open roles but for positions across the nation. I’m curious what you are seeing with: Candidate willingness (or not) to move to a new...
May 2 2022 // State Farm Insurance has awarded the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) with a $40,000 grant to promote and develop education programs throughout the state.ICT will use the grant to grow its multiple public service and...
Apr 26 2022 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) announced it will host the inaugural Captive & Insurance Business Transfer (IBT) Conference in Oklahoma City on August 24-25.The conference is designed for risk managers,...
Apr 19 2022 // State Farm Insurance has awarded the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) with a $40,000 grant to promote and develop education programs throughout the state.ICT will use the grant to grow its multiple public service and...
Apr 19 2022 // Insurance companies can conduct remote rather than on-site reviews of their managing general agents in Maryland beginning in October.Gov. Larry Hogan has signed legislation recommended by the state’s insurance...
Apr 18 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Monday issued a new report and webpage detailing insurer investments in fossil fuels.The report is a study of fossil fuel investments by insurers, identifying insurance...
Apr 4 2022 // For insurance leaders tasked with managing their organization’s human capital, the COVID-19 pandemic presented myriad challenges around employee safety and wellness, and transformed their workplace responsibilities...
Mar 16 2022 // Austin, TX., March 16, 2022 — The National Alliance announces leadership changes to the Certified Insurance Counselors (CIC) and Certified Insurance Service Representatives (CISR) Board of Governors.Serving on the...
Mar 15 2022 // In the not-too-distant future, researchers should be able to see exactly which materials and construction techniques hold up best against the worst that Mother Nature has to offer: 200-mph winds, storm surges and the...
Mar 7 2022 // When I joined AIG — and the insurance world — in 2020 as global head of talent, the industry had already acknowledged that new and more diverse talent were necessary for its continued success. The challenge...
Mar 2 2022 // As cyber threats have continued to grow, one segment of the market that has been especially impacted is education, according to guests on the most recent episode of The Insuring Cyber Podcast.“This is a segment that...
Mar 1 2022 // The families of two Houston residents killed in a series of recent traffic accidents involving local law enforcement said Feb. 24 they believe their loved ones’ deaths are part of an ongoing problem with police...
Mar 1 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition by a Massachusetts Christian college seeking a religious “ministerial exception” to help it avoid a discrimination lawsuit brought by a professor denied a...
Feb 28 2022 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed fines against two construction firms working on a new Amazon facility in Philadelphia after a worker died from being trapped...
Feb 22 2022 // A highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a non-commercial backyard flock of birds on Long Island in New York, federal authorities confirmed Saturday.Samples from the flock were tested at the Cornell...
Feb 21 2022 // Salaries and total compensation rose in 2021 for all levels of empoloyees reporting in the Insurance Journal Agency Salary Survey.But while insurance agency personnel on average made more money last year, their...
Feb 21 2022 // The recruiting climate has undergone numerous shifts in just two years. From nearing a complete halt in early 2020 to the Great Reshuffle we’re now experiencing, insurance organizations have had to adjust how they...
Feb 16 2022 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tvThe cybersecurity and insurance industries have been talking about prioritizing diversity, equity and inclusion for a while, but Larry Whiteside, co-founder and president of Cyversity, says...
Feb 14 2022 // Haskell Indian Nations University has settled a lawsuit filed after a former university president sought to dictate what student journalists could report and write.Free-speech advocates said the settlement agreement with...