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Schools, Lawmakers, Tech Firms Trying to Curb Rising Cyberbullying

Jul 29 2019 // Rachel Whalen remembers feeling gutted in high school when a former friend would mock her online postings, threaten to unfollow or unfriend her on social media and post inside jokes about her to others online.The...

The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research Rebrands Podcast Series

Jul 24 2019 // July 24, 2019, Austin, TX—The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research has rebranded their monthly podcast series. Nat Alliance NOW offers risk and insurance professionals rich, nuanced conversations that...

AIG Names Ling Chief Human Resources Officer

Jul 22 2019 // American International Group has named Karen L. Ling as executive vice president, chief human resources officer. Ling will lead AIG’s global human resources department and be responsible for aligning AIG’s...

Nevada Wants Feds to Restudy Seismic Risk at Nuke Dump Site

Jul 19 2019 // Nevada’s governor and congressional delegation are pointing to earthquakes this month in the California desert and calling for the U.S. Energy Department look again at seismic risks of burying the nation’s most...

Expert Outlines 5 School Insurance Liability Issues to Watch

Jul 19 2019 // Lilian A. Vanvieldt, senior vice president, educational entities practice leader for the national insurance agency Alliant, has spent more than three decades insuring schools across the country. Her book of business spans...

Senators’ Flood Insurance Measure Includes Premium Cap, Mitigation, Claims Reforms

Jul 17 2019 // A bipartisan group of U.S. senators from coastal states — including three running for president– unveiled a comprehensive flood insurance reform measure they see as an alternative to measures recently passed by a House...

The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research Debuts New Online Learning Experience

Jul 15 2019 // Austin, TX, July 15, 2019 – The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research launched a new and improved online learning experience that educates insurance and risk professionals about new changes,...

Insurance Industry’s Talent Hunt. It’s Time to Turn Up the Volume: Viewpoint

Jul 12 2019 // The insurance industry needs help — lots of it. By 2020, it’s predicted that we’ll have 400,000 open positions. Of course, we’ve been talking about the talent shortage for years; it’s not new...

Pushing and Pulling Lloyd’s Into the 21st Century

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...

The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research Announces STATE WINNERS of the 2019 OUTSTANDING CSR OF THE YEAR AWARD

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...

Court Holds Amazon Liable for Products of Other Vendors Sold on Its Site

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...

The Value to Insurance Agencies of Value-Added Services for Clients

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...

Swingle Receives IIAT’s 2019 Drex Foreman Award

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...

Preparing for the Unpredictable Talent Considerations for CAT Season

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...

3 Reasons I Attended the SITE Conference

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...

Officials, Petroleum Council Tout New North Dakota Oilfield Safety Program

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...

North Carolina to Host Flood Insurance Conferences; Will Offer Agents CE Credits

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...

Small Fire Still Burning at Site of Philadelphia Oil Refinery Explosions

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...

Houston Skies May Darken Again as Tank Farm Disaster-Site Teardown Begins

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”...

New York to Adopt Aggressive Emission Reduction Goals

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...