All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 28 2006 // CNA Surety Corp.announced today that John F. Welch, president and CEO, and John F. Corcoran, senior vice-president and CFO, will speak at the Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. Inc. 2006 Investor Conference on Wed.,...
Nov 28 2006 // Grady & Associates Insurance Services, an employee benefits brokerage firm, has launched a new Web site (http://www.gradyandassociates.com) designed to be an online informational resource, helping Las Vegas businesses...
Nov 28 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) will present a two-day educational conference Dec. 4-5, 2006 in Austin. The 2006 DWC Conference will feature presentations by two Texas...
Nov 27 2006 // Brooke Corporation President and COO Anita Larson, and CFO Leland Orr will participate in Friedman Billings Ramsey’s 2006 Investor Conference at the Grand Hyatt New York in New York City. Nearly 1,300 institutional...
Nov 27 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana (IIAI) recently announced special awards at a ceremony during their recent Annual Convention in November 11. Award recepients include:Ronald Shumaker, CISR, vice...
Nov 22 2006 // A federal work safety agency accused contractors in north Georgia and metro Atlanta last week of allowing employees to work in unsafe conditions in deep trenches at their sites.The Occupational Safety and Health...
Nov 21 2006 // Kids’ Chance of Arkansas Inc. is revising the 2007 application for its annual scholarships, the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission reported. The application will be available online by mid-January. These...
Nov 20 2006 // Retaliation claims have been on the rise for more than a decade. According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, only 15.3 percent of the charges of discrimination filed with the agency in 1992 alleged...
Nov 20 2006 // Good people can make or break a company. In San Diego-based Barney & Barney’s case, it’s clearly made it; the company has been in business for nearly a century, thanks to people who have invested their...
Nov 20 2006 // Look around you. Take a long look at the folks in your agency or company. And then break out your calculator.What is the average age of your employees or colleagues? What percent of your firm’s workforce were already...
Nov 19 2006 // Good people can make or break a company. In San Diego-based Barney & Barney’s case, it’s clearly made it; the company has been in business for nearly a century, thanks to people who have invested their...
Nov 19 2006 // Look around you. Take a long look at the folks in your agency or company. And then break out your calculator.What is the average age of your employees or colleagues? What percent of your firm’s workforce were already...
Nov 15 2006 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has a newly designed Web site to make it easier to access its insurance products, with downloadable policy form and applications, such as EPLI, tenant discrimination and...
Nov 15 2006 // Dr. Thomas Loster, a geographer who advises the Munich Re Foundation, told those attending the current United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Conference in Nairobi that, “Most insurance and re-insurance companies...
Nov 14 2006 // The Delaware Department of Insurance has created a website that will allow consumers to compare auto insurance rates from more than 50 companies that offer auto insurance in Delaware. The site will use more sample customer...
Nov 13 2006 // Cincinnati Financial Corp. announced today that the company will participate in the Credit Suisse Insurance Conference.John J. Schiff, Jr., CPCU, chairman and chief executive officer; J.F. Scherer, senior vice president of...
Nov 9 2006 // Bermuda-based Allied World Assurance Company Holdings (AWAC) reported net income of $114 million, or $1.89 per diluted share, for the third quarter 2006 compared to a net loss of $283.4 million, or $5.65 per diluted share,...
Nov 9 2006 // The Bermuda-based PXRE Group Ltd. reported net income before convertible preferred share dividends of $4.5 million compared to a net loss before convertible preferred share dividends of $317.3 million in the third quarter...
Nov 9 2006 // Democratic Gov. Brad Henry’s victory over Republican Rep. Ernest Istook was the biggest landslide in an Oklahoma governor’s race in almost half a century.Henry, a little-known state senator when he upset a...
Nov 6 2006 // Retaliation claims have been on the rise for more than a decade. According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, only 15.3 percent of the charges of discrimination filed with the agency in 1992 alleged...