All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 27 2018 // AXIS Specialty UK Holdings Ltd. announced it has been certified as a GCHQ Certified Training provider for its course “Understanding Cybersecurity and Insurance.”The training is offered through the AXIS Cyber...
Sep 26 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced on Wednesday he had approved a Universal Claims Certification program from Claims and Litigation Management Alliance designed to streamline the licensing process for...
Sep 24 2018 // The fourth annual global festival for diversity and inclusion (D&I), Dive In, begins this week in a record number of 27 countries across the globe.Dive In began in 2015 in London, growing to 10 countries in 2016, 17 in...
Sep 20 2018 // Members of the Association of Bermuda Insurers & Reinsurers (ABIR) made a direct economic contribution to Bermuda of more than $840 million in 2017, according to the group’s 13th annual member survey results.Data...
Sep 18 2018 // Marsh & McLennan Inc. (MMC) has been preparing for a major acquisition and admiring its competitor Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) for years. So right after the CEOs of the two firms met on Sept. 7 and he sensed an...
Sep 18 2018 // The Austin-based insurance education organization the National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research has appointed William J. Hold as chief executive officer. He will assume the day-to-day leadership of the...
Sep 17 2018 // The Hanover Insurance Group could use some of the $950 million it will make from selling its Chaucer international specialty business to fuel organic growth, pursue select acquisitions and hire top talent from rivals,...
Sep 17 2018 // There’s Opportunity in Unusual and Emerging Risks, Sullivan Tells CarriersThe current economic and business wave presents property/casualty insurance carriers with opportunities to expand or differentiate themselves...
Sep 17 2018 // Today’s insurance labor market is colored by the rapid graying of the workforce. The industry’s growing retirement rate and burgeoning skills and knowledge gap are creating a candidate-driven market. As many...
Sep 17 2018 // Maximizing employee productivity has a direct impact on the bottom line. Managing workloads is something most managers or supervisors try to do. But it doesn’t really work to just shift accounts from one account...
Sep 17 2018 // Matching grants of up to $5,000 to improve workplace safety and health are being made available to Michigan companies that have up to 250 employees.Administered by the Michigan’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Sep 10 2018 // Alibaba is heralding the end of the Jack Ma era.A former English teacher who helped found Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. two decades ago, Ma outlined plans to hand the executive chairman role to Daniel Zhang, a finance veteran...
Sep 6 2018 // Teens who took a supplemental drivers’ education program — including tours of emergency rooms, intensive care units and a morgue — showed greater awareness of the consequences of risky driving and of how they can...
Sep 5 2018 // When Nick Wailes started as the head of Australia’s top-ranked business graduate school in February, he already had the idea of offering a course to address a shortfall of training in ethical leadership.A few weeks...
Sep 5 2018 // Atlanta, GA, September 5, 2018— Blue River Underwriters will hold two separate informational program webinars this month. The first webinar on the Contractors Elite program this Thursday, September 6 from 11:30 a.m. to...
Sep 3 2018 // The wave of innovation has taken the insurance industry by storm, forever changing organizations, processes and people alike. Risk management telematics are calculating accurate policies for underwriters, big data is...
Sep 3 2018 // The old saying, “Our agency is constantly recruiting,” used to make firms sound very progressive. That barely cuts the mustard these days.Agencies must adopt a new philosophy: “We’re constantly...
Sep 3 2018 // NationsBuilders Insurance Services, Inc. (NBIS), a provider of specialty program insurance to the heavy construction industry, has added Chris Nelson as transportation program manager.Nelson will represent NBIS within the...
Aug 31 2018 // The California Assembly on Thursday voted unanimously on a plan to address workplace sexual harassment and expand a requirement for harassment training to small businesses.Current law requires all employers with 50 or more...
Aug 30 2018 // If you’re a waste treatment specialist, actuary or naval architect, Hong Kong wants you.The government this week unveiled a talent list to attract skilled workers in 11 professions that the city is seen as needing...