All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 6 2008 // An insurance group has canceled another conference scheduled at The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia because of an ongoing contract dispute between the resort and its employees. The Council of Insurance Agents and...
Oct 6 2008 // The South Carolina Safe Home Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program has a new Web site. The site, www.scsafehome.sc.gov, offers information about the damage mitigation grant program as well as information about the various...
Oct 6 2008 // Soft market conditions could last for another nine months to five years, predict representatives from the agent, broker, carrier, reinsurance, and excess and surplus lines sectors of the insurance industry.“I...
Oct 1 2008 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance Office of State Fire Marshal and the UNC Healthcare Jaycee Burn Center are the co-hosts of the 2008 World Burn Congress in Raleigh.Each year more than 500,000 people are treated...
Oct 1 2008 // The Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers has created the George Joseph Educational Foundation to support insurance training for association members, provide educational scholarships for the next generation of insurance...
Sep 30 2008 // Woodbury, NY, September 30 2008 – Access General Agency (AGA), the leading provider of homeowners insurance solutions to independent brokers in the United States, has launched a brand new fully-interactive web site...
Sep 30 2008 // Membership among volunteer firefighters in Texas has dropped to levels predating a surge brought on by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks seven years ago, a state official says.Many found firefighting less glamorous than they...
Sep 26 2008 // A business group canceled another conference scheduled at The Greenbrier because of an ongoing contract dispute between the West Virginia resort and its employees.The Washington, D.C.-based Council of Insurance Agents and...
Sep 24 2008 // In response to global insurance industry software needs, Oracle has formed a new business unit, Oracle Insurance, and unveiled Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Foundation Pack for Insurance at the San...
Sep 24 2008 // A.M. Best announced that a number of leaders of its insurance ratings team will address a variety of important property/casualty market issues in an online briefing set for today, Wednesday, September 24 at 9 a.m. Eastern...
Sep 23 2008 // Lloyd’s has welcomed the first group of candidates to be accepted in to its graduate program. The nine graduates have spent the past week learning about Lloyd’s and the London Insurance Market, meeting their...
Sep 18 2008 // The American Insurance Association is participating in this week’s conference “Out of the Storm: Confronting America’s Catastrophic Risk Crisis,” organized by the South Carolina Department of...
Sep 17 2008 // The South Carolina Safe Home Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program has a new Web site.The new site, www.scsafehome.sc.gov, offers information about the damage mitigation grant program as well as information about the various...
Sep 16 2008 // Dallas, TX, September 16, 2008 – Council on Education in Management (Council) announced that Division of Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Rod Bordelon will present a Keynote Address at the upcoming Texas...
Sep 11 2008 // The West Virginia Insurance Commission sent a heads-up to all insurance companies licensed to do business in the state, informing them that the department will accept only electronic rate and form filings beginning in...
Sep 10 2008 // Recent construction crane accidents causing injuries and accidents in Texas and elsewhere have prompted the Texas Department of Insurance to urge employers and employees to use safety precautions when operating cranes.In...
Sep 10 2008 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Commissioner of Insurance Mike Geeslin in July 2008 include nine license revocations, four license denials and fines and restitution totaling $539,814. Copies of Geeslin’s orders...
Sep 1 2008 // Since the beginning of Alabama Gov. Bob Riley’s administration, Insurance Commissioner Walter A. Bell said it has been the Department’s goal to streamline regulation and to reduce red tape.A new producer...
Sep 1 2008 // The aging and retirement of the Baby Boomer generation is creating a demographic transformation that will affect the staffs of insurance organizations, as well as their customers.Consider the following statistics:...
Sep 1 2008 // If you’re like most insurance firms, your workforce is aging. Or, as a friend of mine recently put it, “There’s a lot of gray hair in the room.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but...