All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 17 2021 // The messages between an Amazon.com Inc. delivery driver and her boss began about 80 minutes before a tornado struck one of the company’s warehouses in Edwardsville, Illinois, on Dec. 10, killing six workers. The...
Dec 7 2021 // The wholesale insurance market continues to grow premiums while providing value to retail agents and important options to their customers, according to a report commissioned by the Wholesale and Specialty Insurance...
Dec 7 2021 // Achieving Rapid Growth in the US Since Rolling Out National Expansion Strategy NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 7, 2021 – Charles Taylor Adjusting and Technical Services, a leading global loss adjusting business, today...
Dec 6 2021 // Surety requires a highly complex and specialized form of underwriting. It is also an excellent career path for those who thrive on complex challenges, have a genuine interest in buildings and infrastructure, and enjoy...
Dec 6 2021 // The talent war is about to get fiercer thanks to “The Great Resignation.” Millions of U.S. workers have quit their jobs, and research shows that nearly half of employees are actively looking to make a change....
Dec 1 2021 // Risk Strategies Appoints Terry Lyons National Education Practice LeaderRisk Strategies, a leading national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, announced that Terry Lyons has been appointed as the...
Nov 22 2021 // Independent agent associations in seven states have teamed up with the technology company Catalyit to help agencies assess and improve their use of data and technological innovations in the insurance arena. “Every...
Nov 15 2021 // Have you ever heard someone in your company say, “Let’s just cast a wide net to find candidates.” If so, job boards are your net, a bullhorn essentially for everyone on the internet to see. It’s a...
Nov 15 2021 // We just attended a Bend Venture Conference event this past week (in Bend, Oregon) that included many angel investors on various panels, as well as several new ventures pitching for those angel investments.There was a good...
Nov 2 2021 // GLASGOW – Leaders at the COP26 global climate conference pledged on Tuesday to stop deforestation by the end of the decade and cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane to help slow climate change.On the second...
Oct 26 2021 // Driving a truck too fast and injuring a fellow officer during a firearms training is not within the scope of employment duties for a Massachusetts police officer, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found. This means...
Oct 18 2021 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) is mandating continuing education in flood insurance for property/casualty insurance producers in response to the increasing risk of flooding due to climate change....
Oct 18 2021 // Dear Mary: Our agency is a regional, independent, privately held broker in the Midwest that has been in business for decades. Every year we hire young, inexperienced people to come into the business as assistants and CSRs....
Oct 11 2021 // Federal equal employment officials say an Oklahoma-based inspection services company subjected black employee to a racially hostile work environment, then fired him for complaining.The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal...
Oct 5 2021 // A Miami judge has approved the contingent sale of the Surfside, Florida, property where a 12-story condominium building collapsed in June, killing 98 people.A Dubai-based billionaire bid $120 million to buy the property,...
Sep 30 2021 // A federal judge Tuesday suspended South Carolina from enforcing a rule that banned school districts from requiring masks for students.Parents of disabled children, helped by the American Civil Liberties Union, sued the...
Sep 21 2021 // A military training jet crashed Sept. 19 in a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, injuring the two pilots and damaging three homes but not seriously hurting anyone on the ground, authorities said.Both pilots managed to...
Sep 17 2021 // Commissioners in Surfside, Florida, have rejected a proposal to trade public beachfront to the eventual buyer of the condominium collapse site so that a memorial to the 98 victims could be built there.The decision followed...
Sep 7 2021 // September 7, 2021 – The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) and the Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance are pleased to announce a new member benefit to bring the Academy of...
Aug 31 2021 // The Connecticut Insurance Department and U.S. experts on climate change, resiliency, mitigation and adaptation are leading a discussion on what the insurance industry should consider to mitigate and adapt.On October 13 and...