All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 10 2019 // Twenty-five years ago, the Lloyd’s of London marketplace was teetering on the brink of insolvency, reeling from billions of dollars of asbestos and pollution liabilities. Many of the best brains in the market worked...
Jul 10 2019 // Austin, TX, July 10, 2019 – Each year, a group of exceptional insurance professionals are chosen by The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research to represent their states and compete to become the...
Jul 8 2019 // A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled against Amazon.com Inc. in a case that could expose the online retailer to lawsuits from customers who buy defective products from third-party vendors through its website.Numerous...
Jul 8 2019 // Let’s face it, insurance is a commodity. The insurance consumer will not see any significant value difference between insurance companies and insurance agencies. Products, price and service are roughly the...
Jul 1 2019 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Frank Swingle Jr., founder and CEO of Swingle Collins & Associates in Dallas, the 2019 Drex Foreman Award winner at IIAT’s Insurcon in Grapevine on June...
Jul 1 2019 // The combined global losses from natural disasters in 2017 and 2018 were the highest ever for a two-year period. While no single major catastrophe caused massive destruction in 2018, nearly 400 smaller natural disasters...
Jun 26 2019 // I travel some with this gig. Most of that travel is either to teach something or to make connections with potential customers. This week, I’m at the one event I attend that’s as much for my own benefit as it is...
Jun 25 2019 // The North Dakota Petroleum Council and state officials say a new oilfield safety training program, 18 months in the making, will be a time-saver for tens of thousands of contract workers.Fifty oil companies worked on the...
Jun 25 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance has set up five flood insurance conferences statewide between July and September designed to educate the public, insurance and real estate agents of the need to purchase flood...
Jun 24 2019 // Officials say a very small fire continues to burn at a Philadelphia refinery following explosions and a pre-dawn blaze that shook homes and caused some minor injuries.Philadelphia Energy Solutions said Saturday that...
Jun 20 2019 // The company behind the four-day chemical blaze that cast a black plume over Houston earlier this year is preparing to destroy one of the tanks at the facility, raising the risk that the site could see “flash”...
Jun 20 2019 // New York would adopt some of the nation’s most aggressive emission reduction goals under a proposal worked out by state leaders and set for a vote in the state Legislature Tuesday night.Under the proposal, New York...
Jun 20 2019 // Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who in 2009 landed a US Airways flight safely on the Hudson River in New York, told a congressional panel on Wednesday that pilots of the now-grounded Boeing 737 MAX should get new...
Jun 19 2019 // Denver, CO, June 19, 2019 – Steve Anderson, leading authority of insurance technology, productivity and profitability, returns to Insurance Journal with a new on-demand webinar, Richer and Nichier: How to Grow Big in...
Jun 17 2019 // As a recruiting partner to insurance agencies, so much of my role is about sourcing account manager candidates that I believe a bigger piece of the hiring puzzle is overlooked. What happens to agencies once they onboard...
Jun 12 2019 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced it is awarding $1.1 million in grants to 11 colleges across Texas to fund workplace safety courses for employers, workers and the general public.The company said it began its commitment...
Jun 10 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to a hear a bid by a unit of British oil major BP to avoid a lawsuit by private landowners in Montana seeking to force the company to pay for a more extensive cleanup of a Superfund...
Jun 10 2019 // The Southern Baptist Convention gathers for its annual national meeting Tuesday with one sobering topic — sex abuse by clergy and staff — overshadowing all others.Inside the meeting hall in Birmingham, Alabama,...
Jun 7 2019 // The Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) announces the launch of “MGA Assess,” an online training solution developed in partnership with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII).The learning...
Jun 7 2019 // June 7, 2019 Austin, TX —The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research launches a new Corporate Learning Portal to help educational managers and anyone responsible for overseeing training easily track...