All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 27 2000 // “Make no mistake about it—we are at war right now,” John Amore, CEO of Zurich U.S. Specialties, told a roomful of 600+ attendees during the general session of the 52nd Annual Golden Gate Chapter CPCU All...
Nov 27 2000 // Ever notice how sometimes it’s the most important stuff that doesn’t get done at work? Every business, large or small, has four quadrants wherein all short-term and long-term work falls. (Some management guru...
Nov 26 2000 // Even as delegates at the UN sponsored environmental conference in the Hague failed to reach any agreement to address the effects of climate change, Dr. Andrew Dlugolecki, director of general insurance development at CGNU,...
Nov 15 2000 // St. John’s University and The College of Insurance have signed a definitive merger agreement, making TCI a school of St. John’s Peter J. Tobin College of Business. The combination creates a more powerful...
Nov 13 2000 // People outside the industry are always surprised to learn how much fraud insurance companies are actually forced to deal with. It wasn’t until fairly recently, in the late 1980s, that insurance companies and local,...
Nov 10 2000 // The Board of Trustees of the Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West created a scholarship fund to award qualified candidates pursuing a career in insurance at an institution of higher education.The Jesse L. Gary...
Nov 6 2000 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Swett & Crawford and Phoenix, Ariz.-based Corpedia formed an alliance to offer web-based training in how to comply with employment practices liability laws and regulations. The training...
Nov 6 2000 // Rev. Jesse Jackson issued a challenge to the agents present at the Independent Insurance Agents of America’s annual meeting last week: Take off the blinders and see that a multicultural clientele is economically...
Oct 30 2000 // iwix.net, an Internet specialty insurance marketplace, has signed AIG Worldsource to provide new products on the iwix.net site. AIG Worldsource, located in New York, will provide product recall coverages, which will...
Oct 30 2000 // Top honors in the Independent Insurance Agents of America’s 2000 National Awards Program were presented today to the Independent Insurance Agents of New Mexico, the Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma, and the...
Oct 30 2000 // The 1990s were a time of turbulence for businesses as employers faced corporate restructuring, seasonal layoffs and reductions in force (RIF). The changing workplace relationships brought about both an increase in age...
Oct 30 2000 // The Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) will hold its 13th Annual International Conference in San Antonio this year, with a renewed commitment to education, according to PLUS President Stephen Gerstman.As...
Oct 23 2000 // When Agents Divorce Their Insurance CompanyInsurance companies and insurance brokerage houses (employers) use a variety of devices to try to prevent departing agents from competing against them. Sometimes smaller agencies...
Oct 20 2000 // According to a recent survey compiled by the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), medical fraud rings, staged auto accidents, arson, and workers’ comp scams top the list of fraud concerns for the...
Oct 13 2000 // A collaboration between The National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research and the Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents has resulted in a new insurance education partnership in New England called The...
Oct 12 2000 // Access General recently announced it will be holding training sessions in Southern California for its DirecNET program. The seminars will take place during the week of Nov. 6. Invitations will be sent to its “Premier...
Sep 26 2000 // Celebrating its first anniversary, new U.S. insurance technology player Policy Master Inc. will hold its Annual Users’ Conference in Denver, Colo., from Oct. 15-17, 2000. The event’s...
Sep 19 2000 // MarketScout is a subsidiary of Insurance Data Systems (IDS), a Dallas-based insurance e-commerce holding company. MarketScout selects just one “Best of Class” insurance company for each of its 370 industry...
Sep 18 2000 // Speakers at the recent American Agents Alliance Conference & Expo 2000 in San Diego had a similar message of hope and of change for the independent insurance agency system.Alliance President Herb Jones, who welcomed...
Sep 8 2000 // The American College and LUTC, Inc. have approved a plan that will combine both organizations into a educational organization serving the financial services industry, the institutions announced at a press conference in New...