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The Smart Workforce Pivot: Insurance’s Backdoor to Talent Acquisition

Jul 15 2024 // The dilemma in today’s labor market is real.In 2023, the U.S. labor market had 9.5 million unfilled jobs. Yet there were just 6.5 million unemployed workers, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. If every...

Honeywell Defeats Fired Engineer’s Appeal Over Diversity Training

Jul 11 2024 // Honeywell did not violate workplace anti-discrimination laws by firing a white engineer who refused to participate in mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion training after the Black Lives Matter movement began, a U.S....

Jury Awards $68.5M to Family of Worker Who Fell to Death at Philly Construction Site

Jul 3 2024 // A Philadelphia jury has awarded $68.5 million in damages to the widow and son of a 38-year-old construction worker who was killed in 2021 in a fall from a fifth-floor balcony at a luxury townhouse site.Siarhei...

Containment Grows on Wildfire Near Site of Most Destructive Blaze in California History

Jun 26 2024 // Residents of a California area near the town of Paradise, the site of the state’s most destructive wildfire in history, were ordered to evacuate and roads were closed this week as a wildfire spread.The Apache Fire in...

Risk & Insurance Education Alliance Wins Business Insurance 2024 Innovation Award

Jun 23 2024 // June 21, 2024 – The Risk & Insurance Education Alliance, formerly known as the National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research, is proud to announce it has been honored with a Business Insurance 2024...

National Alliance Revises Name to ‘Risk & Insurance Education Alliance’

Jun 12 2024 // Refreshed visual identity reflects expanded, modern education initiatives Austin, TX., June 12, 2024 — The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research has changed its 55-year-old name and logo to reflect...

Russian Oil Finds New Site for Controversial Cargo Switching

Jun 4 2024 // Under pressure from Greece’s navy, traders of Russian oil have found a new place to switch cargoes of crude in the Mediterranean sea, a sign of how hard it will be to clamp down on an activity that has alarmed...

National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research Partners with BrokerTech Ventures to Launch a Foundational Insurance for Insurtech Professionals Course

Jun 3 2024 // Austin, TX., June 3, 2024 – In an innovative move to bridge the knowledge gap in the rapidly evolving insurance/insurtech landscape, The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research has partnered with...

Staffing Shortages, Reduced Training Fuel Risks for Company Drivers

Jun 3 2024 // Increased distractions, staffing shortages and safety risks mean that 60% of company drivers are worried about their personal safety and liability behind the wheel. Over half have been involved in or witnessed an accident...

Get an Education on School Liability and Property Risks

Jun 3 2024 // Discrimination, active assailants and an aging infrastructure — educational institutions today face tough liability and property risks that were uncommon in the not-too-distant past. Pair those with longtime risks...

Contamination Fears Stoked by Water Leak at German Nuclear Site

May 24 2024 // Water is leaking into an underground nuclear waste facility in Germany creating fears about toxic contamination of groundwater and highlighting the legacy that the shuttered nuclear industry has left behind.The operator of...

Staffing Shortages, Reduced Safety Training Fuel Risks for Company Drivers

May 17 2024 // Increased distractions, staffing shortages, and safety risks mean that 60% of company drivers are worried about their personal safety and liability behind the wheel. Over half have been involved in or witnessed an accident...

Sony Music Warns Companies to Stop Training AI on Its Artists’ Content

May 17 2024 // Sony Music Group, one of the world’s biggest record labels, warned artificial intelligence companies and music streaming platforms not to use the company’s content without explicit permission.Sony Music, whose...

Body of Last Missing Construction Worker Recovered from Baltimore Bridge Site

May 10 2024 // The body of the last missing construction worker killed in the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March has been recovered, officials announced Tuesday as demolition crews prepared to use explosives...

Construction Site Fatalities Down, Injuries Up in New York City

May 9 2024 // Building construction-related fatalities in the five boroughs of New York City are at the lowest number in nearly a decade, with seven deaths in 2023 as compared to a high of 14 in 2019.While fatalities are down, the...

Runaway Steel Drum From Construction Site Kills Woman

May 7 2024 // A steel drum weighing thousands of pounds somehow rolled out of a construction site in Pittsburgh and eventually struck and killed a woman who was walking on a nearby sidewalk, police said. The accident occurred around...

Newspapers Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement Over AI Training

May 1 2024 // A group of newspapers, including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, sued Microsoft and OpenAI in New York federal court on Tuesday, accusing them of misusing reporters’ work to train their generative...

One Novel Approach to Solving the Talent Crisis

Apr 25 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.It’s not a secret. Insurance has a talent crisis. Not that people who work in insurance aren’t talented – whooooo boy. But that there aren’t enough...

National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research Launches AlliBot: An AI Knowledge Bot for Risk & Insurance Professionals

Apr 18 2024 // Austin, TX., April 18, 2024 — The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research is thrilled to announce the launch of AlliBot v2.0, the Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Bot built exclusively for the risk...

Manhattan Tourist Site The Vessel, Closed in 2021 After Suicides, Will Reopen This Year

Apr 16 2024 // The Vessel, a climbable sculpture that drew hordes of tourists to the Hudson Yards megadevelopment on Manhattan’s west side before a string of suicides forced its closure in 2021, will reopen to the public later this...