All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 22 2020 // Florida teachers sued Monday to block what they call the “reckless and unsafe reopening” of public school campuses for face-to-face instruction.The Florida Education Association lawsuit argues that reopening...
Jul 20 2020 // Insurance organizations have recently been navigating a number of talent shifts in a short amount of time. Organizations that did not previously have remote work strategies in place have had to quickly implement programs...
Jul 20 2020 // One of my favorite books and movies is The Milagro Beanfield War. It takes place in the ’70s in a small, poverty stricken, dirt street northern New Mexico village. It’s close to a third world village, and into...
Jul 17 2020 // A surge in COVID-19 cases is forcing InsureTech Connect – one of the world’s largest insurance technology conferences – to go fully digital for its annual fall gathering.ITC has scheduled ITC World Tour, a...
Jul 16 2020 // The COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges for many businesses across the globe, including the insurance industry. But so far, the insurance broker merger and acquisition (M&A) market has remained active even as the...
Jul 13 2020 // The website for Louisiana’s program to help small businesses that have suffered losses as a result of the coronavirus epidemic is now operational, the state’s treasury office reported.State Treasurer John M....
Jul 9 2020 // Hawaiian Airlines Inc. says 13 of its employees have tested positive for the coronavirus following an annual training course.The employees who tested positive for COVID-19 took part in flight attendant training at the...
Jul 8 2020 // A worker injured at a Massachusetts construction site can sue under the state’s three-year statute of limitations despite being a resident of Connecticut, a Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled. The decision...
Jul 7 2020 // The Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) will receive $3.45 million from U.S. Department of Labor to support the expansion of its registered apprenticeship programs.The funding received, is part of the USDOL’s...
Jul 1 2020 // Federal regulators have cited aircraft maker Textron Aviation for a December 2019 explosion that injured 15 workers at its Wichita, Kansas, manufacturing plant.U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and...
Jun 23 2020 // Working from home should have liberated employees from toxic workplace behavior such as bullying and harassment. Amid the lockdowns, gone are undesired office encounters, business trips, round-the-clock conferences and...
Jun 22 2020 // Specialist insurer Beazley has launched a contingency policy designed to cover event organizers if a transmission failure disrupts or cancels a live virtual event.The insurer acknowledged that streaming live events is not...
Jun 19 2020 // Developing young talent to become successful young agents is not easy.Chris Burand, president of Burand & Associates, an insurance agency consulting firm, estimates that the new producer failure rate is as high as 70%...
Jun 18 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced the newest members of the California Department of Insurance’s Curriculum Board and the California Insurance Guarantee Association’s Board of...
Jun 15 2020 // Jon got the mail as he pulled up into the drive. There was a thick envelope from the credit card company. Jon opened it, and the balance was much bigger than he’d expected. Jon and his wife had a bad habit. They used...
Jun 15 2020 // Why? This is the entire question for agencies when it comes to producer recruiting. Well, maybe not. Here are the elongated versions of questions I field on this issue. Why is it so hard to find sales candidates? Why...
Jun 9 2020 // Thanks to Friend of the Academy of Insurance, Joe Harringon, for this guest post. Joe is an independent business researcher and writer specializing in property and casualty coverages. He is also a regular instructor with...
Jun 3 2020 // An early morning fire damaged a building at Stagville, a state historic site that includes remnants of one of the largest plantations in North Carolina. The Durham County Sheriff’s Office said fire rescue personnel...
Jun 1 2020 // Lilian A. Vanvieldt, senior vice president, educational entities practice leader, for Alliant, has spent more than three decades insuring schools across the country. Her book spans from small school districts to very large...
May 29 2020 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the completion of all required cleanup activities within a unit of a Montana Superfund site.The federal agency removed a portion of an asbestos-contaminated mining...