All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 1 2010 // Insurance agents with customers waiting to be covered in the federal flood insurance program should tell those customers about the program’s suspension, an insurance expert is advising.As reported by Insurance...
Feb 26 2010 // Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons amended his proclamation for the Legislature’s special session to include sweeping reforms to collective bargaining, education, water law — and said lawmakers should be quick about their...
Feb 26 2010 // The wholesale insurance industry association, American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA), has created a Distinguished Chair in Risk Management and Insurance at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at...
Feb 23 2010 // IMA Inc., an independently owned retail insurance broker announced that Brent Hartman has joined the company’s health risk management practice, Life IQ, in the Denver office.Life IQ is IMA’s multidisciplinary...
Feb 22 2010 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) has awarded academic scholarships to students at Southern Methodist University (SMU) and the University of Houston – Downtown (UHD). The students represent each school’s...
Feb 21 2010 // “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”—Warren BuffetAgents, brokers and underwriters should heed Mr. Buffet’s advice and consider how they’re doing business. I’ll bet if I asked...
Feb 21 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 21 2010 // Most enter the insurance business by accident but for young independent insurance agents, the decision to stick with insurance as a permanent career is a matter of choice.A healthy 84 percent of young insurance agents say...
Feb 17 2010 // The Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group Ltd reported that net income available to common shareholders for the 2009 fourth quarter of $284.7 million, or $4.75 per share, compared to a net loss to common shareholders of $143.0...
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)...