All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 7 2009 // The theft of personal and private data — from credit card information, to Social Security numbers, to health information, is a thriving global crime — and it is fed by data security breaches that cost companies...
Sep 7 2009 // The best way insurance agents can teach employers about workers’ compensation is to get to know their business.Idaho insurance agent Doug Nielsen vividly remembers the moment he realized the importance of job safety...
Aug 31 2009 // Changes to state and federal law over the past few years may prove to be no gimme for golf and country clubs. In fact, since many club owners and managers are unaware of the potential impact of these laws, a simple...
Aug 31 2009 // The UK’s Chartered Insurance Institute announced that its London Market faculty will hold a second “Counter Terrorist Workshop” in conjunction with the City of London Police on November 10.The CII said...
Aug 20 2009 // Leila Tamashiro, president of the Honolulu Association of Insurance Professionals (HAIP), accepted the Jeffrey Nordhaus Education Award at the National Association of Insurance Women (NAIW (International)) regional meeting...
Aug 17 2009 // There are far easier ways to spend one’s leisure hours than slogging through tough early-morning runs, pedaling through sunburns and saddle sores and accidentally swallowing gulps of salt-, lake- or chlorinated...
Aug 17 2009 // Thanks to automation advances, insurance agency tasks that took hours can be done in a matter of minutes. Multiple data entry and one-by-one Web site visits have been replaced by management system-based processing, with no...
Aug 14 2009 // Progressive Insurance wants to ramp up its agency business and plans to turn to a source of strength for its direct sales channel – the Internet – to help make that happen.As Glenn M. Renwick, president and...
Aug 13 2009 // Web-based insurance seller Business Insurance Now has signed with The Hartford Financial Services group to offer home and auto policies. “Many small-business owners share a desire to simplify,” says Jim...
Aug 12 2009 // The Denver Fire Department has acknowledged submitting incorrect training records to an agency that helps set insurance prices but says the errors weren’t deliberate.KMGH-TV in Denver reported Sunday that the records...
Aug 12 2009 // The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has issued a summary of new traffic laws passed by the Texas Legislature that are set to become effective Sept. 1, 2009.Among those laws that may affect the property casualty...
Aug 10 2009 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during June included 18 license revocations, five license denials and fines and restitution totaling $441,318, the Texas Department of...
Aug 6 2009 // The Ohio Department of Insurance has revoked the insurance education provider contract and license of an agent the department found to be falsifying continuing education credit hours for hundreds of insurance agents.George...
Aug 4 2009 // The Certified Risk Managers (CRM) International Program in México has a new home on the Web: www.crm-international.org. CRM en Espanol was first introduced in México by The National Alliance for Insurance Education...
Aug 3 2009 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations’ (DIR) Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has filed a proposal with the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to amend the...
Aug 3 2009 // The Ohio Department of Insurance has a new Web site address: http://www.insurance.ohio.gov. The old address, www.ohioinsurance.gov, will remain active for a several months but will eventually be shut down in place of the...
Jul 31 2009 // The EPA project manager overseeing cleanup at the abandoned Metachem site near Delaware City says toxic chemicals will remain there for at least 100 years. Hilary Thornton spoke Tuesday night about the Environmental...
Jul 29 2009 // The Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) has reported that the number of private sector jobs in Louisiana grew by 700 from May to June, led by increases in most major industry sectors.The job gains were offset largely by a...
Jul 29 2009 // Seven financial and automotive companies that have received “exceptional” government aid face an Aug. 13 deadline to submit compensation plans to the U.S. Treasury Department’s executive pay czar, people...
Jul 21 2009 // Governors attending their national convention in Biloxi on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast have seen signs of Hurricane Katrina recovery — glitzy casinos packed with tourists, new condominium towers rising along the...