All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 8 2008 // The Louisiana House Transportation committee has voted to approve a bill under which the state would stop forcing adult motorcyclists to wear helmets. Instead bikers would be required to undergo safety training before...
May 7 2008 // Pennsylvania’s State Police last year arrested 15,583 people for driving under the influence, a 3 percent increase over the number arrested for DUI in 2007, and the highest total for a single year in the...
May 6 2008 // The Bermuda-based Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. (which includes the formerly Texas-based Argonaut Group) announced net income of $36.9 million for the first quarter of 2007, a 47 percent rise, while pretax...
May 6 2008 // Independent agents in Massachusetts have charged that Progressive Insurance, which began selling auto insurance online in the state May 1, is skirting state regulations and misleading consumers with its Web site quoting...
May 5 2008 // Motorcycle fatalities are on the rise in Colorado, doubling from 45 in 1995 to an all-time high of 90 deaths in 2007, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT).In the past five years (2003-2007) in...
May 5 2008 // Professional services” can have connotations ranging from racy “professional” call girls to the more mundane accountants, doctors, lawyers and engineers. From an insurance perspective, liability arising...
May 5 2008 // Like the love-lorn users of match.com, independent agents hunting for business partners among surplus lines wholesalers and managing general agents are thinking long-term, not short.They are looking for partners who will...
May 5 2008 // New Jersey insurers using education and employment to rate drivers for risk are justified in doing so and the practice does not amount to racism or classism, according to a new, 581-page report released by Garden State...
May 5 2008 // Grange Mutual Casualty Co. announced that Randy Montelone will retire at year end after 29 years of service with the company.Tom Welch, current president of Grange Life Insurance Co., a Grange subsidiary, assumes the role...
May 1 2008 // A yearlong investigation by the New Jersey Public Advocate’s Office has found numerous problems with the way the state screens, remediates and follows-up on lead poisoning cases.The report found lead paint remains a...
Apr 30 2008 // Firefighters battled a huge blaze that engulfed a commercial facility in South Los Angeles. Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman d’Lisa Davies said the fire erupted about 2:15 p.m. on April 28. About 80...
Apr 29 2008 // Tennessee officials say a construction worker fell to his death at an Embassy Suites construction site in Murfreesboro.Rutherford County Emergency Medical Services spokesman Randy White says the incident happened around...
Apr 29 2008 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during March include five license revocations, four license denials, and fines and restitution totaling $130,400.Copies of...
Apr 25 2008 // A 60-acre Superfund site in Old Bridge, New Jersey is set for cleanup after more than two dozen companies reached an agreement with the state to cover the cost. Under the settlement announced Wednesday, about $20 million...
Apr 25 2008 // New Jersey insurers who use education and employment to rate drivers for risk are justified in doing so and the practice does not amount to racism or classism, according to a new, 581-page report released by Garden State...
Apr 23 2008 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services recently announced the addition of staff in its North Dakota office. Deb Galt was named Insurance Brokerage supervisor for Wells Fargo Insurance Services’ Midwest region, and Gail Hayes...
Apr 23 2008 // The National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices has launched a new online job center to help students and young professionals find employment opportunities in the surplus lines insurance...
Apr 22 2008 // Motorcycle fatalities are on the rise in Colorado, doubling from 45 in 1995 to an all-time high of 90 deaths in 2007, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT). In the past five years (2003-2007) in...
Apr 21 2008 // A state Web site intended to educate consumers about Massachusetts’ newly deregulated auto insurance market instead gives them inaccurate rate comparisons, according to Attorney General Martha Coakley.Coakley argued...
Apr 21 2008 // A new driving simulation laboratory is now open for business in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.The state-of-the-art facility, housed in UB’s New York State Center for Industrial...