All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 16 2010 // Your insurance leads need special attention to become customers. It is not easy to get sophisticated consumers to buy, and that is why you need to leverage every tool available to make your time as effective as possible....
Feb 9 2010 // Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited reported net income for the fourth quarter of 2009 of $282 million, or $1.87 per diluted common share, compared with net income of $131 million, or $0.88 per diluted common share...
Feb 7 2010 // It’s a safe bet that relatively few public entity administrators or officials grew up wishing they’d become magicians one day. But if you read closely between the lines of their job descriptions, the role is...
Feb 5 2010 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company has awarded a combined $300,000 in grants to Kilgore College, Midland College and College of the Mainland in Texas City. The grants will fund free workplace safety courses for employers,...
Feb 3 2010 // ACE Limited reported net income for the quarter ended December 31, 2009, of $953 million, or $2.81 per share, compared with $0.06 per share for the same quarter last year.For the full year ACE reported net income of $2.549...
Feb 3 2010 // Hawaii is closer to tapping its Hurricane Relief Fund to help balance the state budget and resolve teacher furloughs, as a legislative committee advanced a bill that would appropriate $50 million from the fund.Senate Bill...
Feb 2 2010 // The slayings last year of six law enforcement officers, as well as several workplace suicides, caused deaths due to workplace violence to spike upward in Washington State, the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I)...
Jan 25 2010 // Seventeen major television networks and production studios and seven talent agencies have reached a $70 million settlement of complaints brought by 165 writers aged 40 or older who alleged age discrimination.Approximately...
Jan 24 2010 // In October 2008, my colleague and friend, Christopher J. Boggs, associate editor of MyNewMarkets.com and frequent contributor to Insurance Journal, wrote:“The beginning of mandated insurance continuing education (CE)...
Jan 24 2010 // In October, 2008, my colleague, Christopher J. Boggs, associate editor of MyNewMarkets.com and frequent contributor to Insurance Journal, wrote:“The beginning of mandated insurance continuing education was the end of...
Jan 24 2010 // In October 2008, my colleague and friend, Christopher J. Boggs, associate editor of MyNewMarkets.com and frequent contributor to Insurance Journal, wrote:“The beginning of mandated insurance continuing education (CE)...
Jan 24 2010 // For years, many insurance companies prided themselves on running successful producer training programs for the independent agents who represented them. Over time, some of these programs have fallen victim to strategy...
Jan 24 2010 // The Insurance Media Association named Insurance Journal‘s Founder Mark Wells Sr., and Publisher Mark Wells Jr. as the 2009 inductees into the Insurance Media Hall-Of-Fame.Insurance Journal, considered the most-read...
Jan 10 2010 // In October, 2008, my colleague and friend, Christopher J. Boggs, associate editor of MyNewMarkets.com and frequent contributor to Insurance Journal, wrote:“The beginning of mandated insurance continuing education was...
Jan 10 2010 // A state audit of a Kentucky municipal association – the second in as many months – has found problems with compensation, spending, conflicts of interest and procurement matters including in the operation of the...
Jan 10 2010 // The United Nations’ Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change strained mightily and produced — a note. Co-authored by the United States and China as a last minute face saver, only five nations signed it. This...
Jan 6 2010 // San Diego – (January 6, 2010) – After months of planning and preparation, Insurance Journal has launched its latest product for the property/casualty insurance industry: The Academy of Insurance.Led by Director...
Jan 5 2010 // The Philippines has ordered its seafarers, comprising about a third of the world’s commercial sailors, to go through anti-piracy training before they will be allowed to board ships, the labor secretary said...
Jan 4 2010 // A Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader who also works as a school teacher in northern Kentucky is suing a gossip Web site for libel over a posting that she says falsely claims she was exposed to two venereal diseases.The woman,...
Dec 29 2009 // When Bob Hagan was a boy in Youngstown, Ohio, people equated the coke dust they swept off their doorsteps each day with opportunity, for it came from the steel mills that built this city.After graduating from high school...