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California Track Cancels Racing After 21 Horses Die in 2 Months

Mar 7 2019 // Santa Anita racetrack in California has canceled racing indefinitely to re-examine its dirt surface after the deaths of 21 horses in the last two months.Tim Ritvo, chief operating officer of The Stronach Group, which owns...

One Dead, Two Injured After Beams Fall at MIT Construction Site in Massachusetts

Mar 4 2019 // The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office says one of three workers injured at an MIT building construction site has died.The Cambridge Fire Department tweeted Thursday that temporary support beams fell on the...

Worker Dies After Falling at School Construction Site in Louisiana

Feb 28 2019 // School officials say a subcontractor fell at a new school construction site in Louisiana and later died. News outlets report that the subcontractor fell around 14 feet while working at the Bullion Primary School...

Search Continues for Remaining Body at Texas Plane Crash Site

Feb 27 2019 // Authorities have been searching a bay off southeast Texas for clues about what caused a Boeing 767 cargo plane carrying Amazon packages to nose-dive into the shallow water, killing all three men on board.A north wind aided...

What Young Insurance Agents Earn, Think and Say

Feb 27 2019 // Young agents want change. They want more diversity in the agency sales ranks. They want better paths to grow in their careers. They want other agents to adhere to professional standards and ethics. They want faster and...

New Investor Property Insurance Program Webinar to be Held Thursday, February 28

Feb 25 2019 // Atlanta, GA, February 25, 2019 — Jared Mathis, executive vice president and head of the Blue River Underwriters’ specialty property group will be presenting an informational webinar on a new investor property...

Millions in China Penalized Under Communist’s ‘Social Credit’ System

Feb 25 2019 // Skipped paying a fine in China? Then forget about buying an airline ticket.Would-be air travelers were blocked from buying tickets 17.5 million times last year for “social credit” offenses including unpaid...

Employees Have Upper Hand in Today’s Agency Job Market

Feb 18 2019 // Owners Must Show Them the Money, Culture and Other PerksAs the insurance industry unemployment rate continues to hover at 1.7 percent, which is lower than the national average of 3.9 percent, insurance agencies face stiff...

Show Them the Money

Feb 18 2019 // To Win the War for TalentIn today’s passive, candidate-driven market, employers do not have the upper hand in the recruitment process. Despite the rising rate of retirement among experienced professionals, which is...

Lockheed Martin Sued for Fraud over Washington Nuclear Site

Feb 15 2019 // The U.S. Justice Department is accusing Lockheed Martin Corp. of using false records and making false statements to bill the Energy Department for tens of millions of dollars in unauthorized profits and fees at the Hanford...

7 Different Insurance Career Options

Feb 13 2019 // This is Insurance Careers Month. I really enjoy when this comes around every year. It’s a chance for me to remind some (and educate others) that the insurance industry is a great career to work in. It has been good...

Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Site Ordered Closed After State Inspection

Feb 11 2019 // State regulators have ordered a medical marijuana dispensary in Acton, Mass., to close its doors temporarily.The Cannabis Control Commission announced on Twitter on Friday that it had issued a cease-and-desist order...

Shell Offshore Agrees to $2.2M Fine for 2016 Gulf Oil Spill

Feb 5 2019 // Shell Offshore Inc. has agreed to pay a $2.2 million civil fine to the federal government to settle charges that the company violated the Clean Water Act by spilling 1,900 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in May 2016...

Taking a Page from the Insurtech Playbook

Feb 4 2019 // How Insurtechs Can Help Attract Millennial Talent to Agencies, CarriersThe rules of the game are changing for companies wishing to attract top, young, qualified talent. Millennials, Generation Y, Gen Next, Boomerang...

Navigating Today’s Nonprofit Insurance Market

Feb 4 2019 // Nonprofits are a lot like most insurance clients; there’s not much difference. They seek trusted and consultative relationships with their agents, brokers and carriers. They seek partners that understand their...

The Claims Talent Evolution

Feb 4 2019 // It should not be a surprise that drones fly over disaster areas for property inspection, and some insurers use chatbots to answer policyholders’ claims questions. Claims applications and supporting documents are...

Breckenridge Insurance Services To Hold Investor Property Insurance Webinar for Agents

Feb 1 2019 // Atlanta, GA, February 1, 2019 — Breckenridge Insurance Services will hold a webinar for agents who are working with insureds that have real estate investment portfolios such as property investors, property managers and...

Missouri Insurance Dept.: Insurance Education Scholarships Available

Jan 30 2019 // Insurance education scholarships are once again being made available to Missouri high school seniors and college students, the Missouri Department of Insurance announced.The deadline to apply for the Missouri Insurance...

Assessing Effects of Government Shutdown on Wildfires, Workforce, Research

Jan 28 2019 // The government may be reopening, but the consequences of the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history are likely to linger for national parks, forests, the federal workforce and cutting-edge scientific research. Some may...

Report Warns of Robots Taking Restaurant, Trucking, Clerical Jobs

Jan 28 2019 // Robots aren’t replacing everyone, but a quarter of U.S. jobs will be severely disrupted as artificial intelligence accelerates the automation of existing work, according to a new Brookings Institution report.The...