All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 3 2020 // As the coronavirus and its COVID-19 disease spread, Insurance professionals going to industry conferences over the next few weeks and months could find themselves having their temperature taken at the door and being told...
Mar 2 2020 // A large construction crane collapsed Friday morning outside SoFi Stadium, the new home of the NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers and Rams, according to the fire department. No injuries were reported.Firefighters were...
Feb 25 2020 // The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) agreed to pay $90,000 to an aviation safety inspector who faced retaliation for raising concerns about unqualified flight safety inspectors, a U.S. agency said Monday.The U.S....
Feb 24 2020 // What makes employees happy at work? Is it pay? Is it benefits? Culture, leadership or employee development opportunities?In today’s competitive insurance job market, it’s all of those and more. Employee...
Feb 24 2020 // It’s hard to find a needle in a haystack, unless you know what you are looking forThe very best agencies that are committed to hiring new producers, who have senior leaders dedicated to recruiting, a bevy of internal...
Feb 21 2020 // New Mexico’s largest county has reached a racial profiling settlement with a black woman who was stopped by deputies three times in less than a month but never cited.Bernalillo County and Sherese Crawford reached a...
Feb 14 2020 // School teachers in Oklahoma with a gun license would be able to carry firearms into their classrooms with district approval under a bill approved in the state Senate.The bill, approved on a 37-7 vote mostly along party...
Feb 14 2020 // Atlanta, GA, February 14, 2020 — The Specialty Property team at Blue River Underwriters will host an informative webinar on the real estate investor property insurance market and other commercial excess and surplus...
Feb 13 2020 // Lloyd’s has announced the membership of its new, independent Culture Advisory Group, which has been set up as part of its action plan to drive long-term cultural changes in the market.Lloyd’s started its...
Feb 13 2020 // SelectQuote has hired investment banks for an initial public offering (IPO) that could value the owner of the eponymous insurance policy comparison website at more than $2 billion, including debt, according to people...
Feb 7 2020 // A section of scaffolding at the Four Seasons Hotel construction site in New Orleans collapsed onto at least a dozen cars on Feb. 5, leaving one person injured, as thunderstorms and high winds moved through the area. The...
Feb 7 2020 // Feb 7 (Reuters) – Over two dozen large trade fairs and industry conferences in China and overseas have been postponed or hit by travel curbs and concerns about the spread of a coronavirus, potentially disrupting...
Feb 6 2020 // Sheryl Rucker has accepted the position of senior vice president of Strategic & Integrated Services, a division of Information Technology at Erie Insurance.In this role, Rucker will have responsibility over a new area...
Feb 6 2020 // Rice University engineers have created a deep learning computer system that taught itself to accurately predict extreme weather events, like heat waves, up to five days in advance using minimal information about current...
Feb 4 2020 // Insurance broker Aon reported it has acquired Cytelligence Inc., a Canadian-based cyber security firm that provides incident response advisory, digital forensic expertise, security consulting services and cyber security...
Feb 4 2020 // A worker was killed at an Amazon delivery hub under construction at an airport in northern Kentucky, authorities said.The workplace accident occurred Saturday at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport,...
Jan 27 2020 // Employers find it difficult to hear that the entire kit and kaboodle of recruiting boils down to money. Insurance agencies would like to think there’s more to the story — work/life balance, career development...
Jan 27 2020 // As individuals, one way that we resolve to get in shape for the new year is by signing up for gym memberships and fitness classes. In that spirit, agents and brokers should resolve to help their policyholders get their...
Jan 27 2020 // California has a big year of issues ahead, including passing a massive budget through the Legislature, dealing with the fallout from wildfires in recent years, homelessness, and tackling climate change.Those were among the...
Jan 23 2020 // A Wyoming company has settled a federal lawsuit by a former employee who claimed she was pressured to take Scientology courses as a condition of her employment.Julie A. Rohrbacher filed the lawsuit in 2018 against Teton...