All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 6 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will sponsor a free restaurant health and safety workshop in San Francisco to help restaurant supervisors and owners design a comprehensive safety training program and...
Mar 6 2006 // Alabama HB627 defining insurance fraud and making it easier for the Insurance Commission to join with neighboring states to crack down on fraud has gained the support of the Alabama Independent Insurance Agents. During...
Mar 6 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced new workers’ compensation regulations that will require all insurers in the state to submit certification forms that verify that claims adjusters and...
Mar 6 2006 // The Agribusiness Conference, hosted by the Insurance Skills Center, is filed for continuing education credits in more than 30 states. Conference locations for 2006 include: March 15-16 Sacramento, Calif.; May 22-23...
Mar 3 2006 // Grange Insurance will offer its Identity Theft victim resolution and education program coverage to auto policyholders in Ohio.The program is being offered in partnership with Identity Theft 911, a national fraud solutions...
Mar 2 2006 // Insurance fraud and “hot topics” facing the insurance industry will be discussed by South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and Director of Insurance Elanor Kitzman during the March 22 and 23 annual...
Mar 2 2006 // Legislation protecting emergency medical dispatchers from lawsuits has passed the Oklahoma House Appropriations and Budget Committee.The House of Representatives reported that House Bill 2879, by State Representatives Doug...
Mar 1 2006 // Seven of the Main Street America Group’s leading employees will be honored March 9 in Jacksonville, Fla. They will receive the company’s highest honor by being inducted into its Circle of Excellence, an annual...
Mar 1 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during January.The actions include three license revocations, two license denials and fines and...
Mar 1 2006 // Following last week’s World Insurance Forum in Bermuda, Lloyd’s chairman Lord Peter Levene undertook to give his answers to some important questions in a Q&A format on the Lloyd’s Website...
Mar 1 2006 // Speaking at the World Insurance Forum in Bermuda, Hemant Shah, Risk Management Solutions CEO, warned that insurers should be preparing to increase their reserves for catastrophe losses, not only due to the unprecedented...
Feb 28 2006 // A three-hour continuing education “Ethics” course will be presented March 13 by Michele Schrotter, Bouchard Insurance training coordinator. The course, sponsored by the Florida SunCoast Chapter of Chartered...
Feb 27 2006 // Paris will host representatives from more than 50 countries for a two-day forum that will seek ways to cope with the increasing spread of the deadly avian flu virus H5N1. As wild birds continue their seasonal migrations,...
Feb 24 2006 // Greensboro, North Carolina – The Smart Choice® Agents Program, which currently serves more than 2,100 independent agencies in 18 states, has announced plans to expand the program in eight states this year.According...
Feb 23 2006 // The Bush Administration on Thursday released its review of The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina.In the 228-page report, the Bush Administration notes that there were major flaws in the response on the...
Feb 22 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced new workers’ compensation regulations that will require all insurers to submit certification forms that verify that claims adjusters and medical bill...
Feb 20 2006 // Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a continuing series of articles offering “best practices” suggestions for the hiring process including training in the independent agency. More information is...
Feb 20 2006 // Outsourcing often receives a bad rap, with large corporations using it to reduce staff count, bureaucracy and overhead. However, for small- and medium-sized insurance agencies, outsourcing can be a valuable, even critical,...
Feb 20 2006 // The California Department of Insurance has launched a new Web site to fight workers’ compensation fraud . The site, accessible on the California Department of Insurance (CDI) web site (www.insurance.ca.gov), will...
Feb 20 2006 // Introduction to Insurance Glendale Community College (Calif.) has added new credit courses for training in the insurance industry. Courses were developed as part of a $1.2 million President’s Community-Based Job...