All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 5 2009 // What would you think if we were to say one of the best ways to help your business is to take the day off? In fact, take two days off for better results.Once a year the firm’s management and sales team should meet...
Oct 5 2009 // In December 2008, Kevin Kelley left Lexington Insurance Co., the largest excess and surplus lines insurance company, after more than 30 years during which he helped the company become one of parent American International...
Oct 2 2009 // American International Group Inc. is again hosting some of the top U.S. financial advisers and says that this time, the gathering at a California resort will cost it just $30,000.The insurer, sharply criticized for holding...
Sep 21 2009 // Carl Zeutzius has walked his share of floors over the past four years. But they were miles well traveled.As a Certified Work Comp Advisor (CWCA) and director of Sales and Marketing for UNICO Group, an insurance, risk...
Sep 21 2009 // The insurance industry is transitioning into a new era. For years, Baby Boomers have led the way and now, as they approach retirement, must find a way to pass along their legacy. Who will fill their shoes?The problem is...
Sep 21 2009 // Phyllis Young and her co-worker and friend, Sarah Bales, won the hula-hoop contest and the balloon toss, making them the favorites to also win the three-legged sack race.Young and Bales didn’t win the sack race...
Sep 18 2009 // Surgeons are increasingly turning to high-tech robotic equipment to operate on patients with prostate cancer and other conditions but some medical authorities worry about inadequate training and lax standards among...
Sep 17 2009 // Oregon officials have filed proposed rules to better protect Oregon seniors and other investors from misleading sales tactics.The rules prohibit those who sell financial and insurance products from marketing themselves by...
Sep 16 2009 // The following announcment was released by the office of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.).Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.) today introduced the America’s Healthy Future Act,...
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...