All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Sep 1 2008 // Montana State Auditor John Morrison’s office has launched a new auto insurance training program for teen drivers. The program, called “The Road to Understanding Auto Insurance,” is free to high school...
Aug 29 2008 // Recruiting and staffing in the insurance industry has never been as “hot” as it is right now, said Susan Henry, senior vice president, The Jacobson Group, an executive search, professional recruiting and...
Aug 25 2008 // A Rapid City neurosurgeon who said he had been sued more than 30 times for malpractice lost two appeals on August 21 in the South Dakota Supreme Court.The court upheld a jury verdict awarding a woman nearly $552,000 in...
Aug 21 2008 // People think and act differently when they’re owners. They take moreability to shape the outcome of the company. Privately-owned companies can be morenimble in the marketplace, and this is very important...
Aug 21 2008 // Too many customer service representatives (CSRs) have problematic issues when it comes to an essential element of their job. That element is the selling of insurance. Some consider this act to be overly difficult and, at...
Aug 20 2008 // Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch announced that cleanup of up to 600 housing units contaminated by lead paint is now going out to bid and said the work would target properties in poorer neighborhoods of the...
Aug 11 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 insurance regulation and to reduce red tape.“From...
Aug 8 2008 // Due to the success of it’s inaugural Exchange conference, MyNewMarkets.com, has scheduled two additional conferences in San Diego on Sept. 4, 2008. and Dallas on Sept. 30, 2008.MyNewMarkets.com Exchange conferences...
Aug 8 2008 // Enforcement actions by Texas Commissioner Mike Geeslin in June included five license revocations, a license denial, and fines and restitution totaling $4,422,505, theTexas Department of Insurance reported.Copies of...