All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Feb 19 2006 // Keeping up with increasing liability as clients expandProperty/casualty insurance agents and brokers are being exposed to more lawsuits as they move into unfamiliar products, states and technologies, and as their own...
Feb 19 2006 // United America Indemnity Ltd.’s board of directors has selected Joseph F. Morris as its president. The company will also consolidate its two U.S. insurance subsidiaries, United National Group and Penn-America Group,...
Feb 19 2006 // It is context that helps employees think through complex problems in the absence of their seniors.Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a continuing series of articles offering “best practices” suggestions...
Feb 19 2006 // 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 Training Grant involving 16...
Feb 19 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 19 2006 // To an inexperienced agent, learning the insurance industry’s ropes – and many acronyms – can be difficult. Yet there are many educational opportunities designed to coach young agents into better...
Feb 14 2006 // Jay S. Fishman, chairman and chief executive officer of The St. Paul Travelers Companies, Inc. is scheduled to speak at 2:55 p.m. , eastern standard time on Thursday, Feb. 16 at the Merrill Lynch Insurance Investors...
Feb 14 2006 // A civil lawsuit filed against a Nassau County, Fla. man for unlawfully soliciting relief donations intended for Hurricane Katrina victims has been successfully concluded by Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist.Robert...
Feb 14 2006 // Minnesota-based St. Paul Travelers and its two private foundations, St. Paul Travelers Foundation and St. Paul Travelers Connecticut Foundation, contributed more than $15 million in a total of of 418 grants to...