All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 20 2023 // Firefighters in the Denver metro area responded to the second large fire at an Aurora construction site in three days.Officials have not yet determined the cause for either fire and have not suggested that they were...
Dec 15 2023 // GILBERT, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s top education official plans to ask lawmakers for $5 million to put a digital map of every school in the state online and make those maps immediately available on police...
Dec 13 2023 // While today’s insurance agency errors and omissions market remains mostly stable, emerging exposures, cyber risk, natural disasters and more could shape its course ahead. Insurance Journal gathered three experts to...
Dec 13 2023 // Meta Platforms’ lawyers had warned it about the legal perils of using thousands of pirated books to train its AI models, but the company did it anyway, according to a new filing in a copyright infringement lawsuit...
Dec 8 2023 // A pickup truck driver in a suburb of Boston is accused of crashing into a police officer and a utility employee at a work site, killing them, then pulling a knife on another officer before stealing his cruiser and...
Dec 4 2023 // I believe you have to do what you love.My favorite subject in school was mathematics. To me, trigonometry and advanced calculus presented challenging but enjoyable and even exciting puzzles to solve. As I grew older, I...
Dec 4 2023 // The city of Boston began requiring construction and demolition contractors to file site-specific safety plans and attest to following them on December 1.The requirement is part of the city’s implementation of a new...
Nov 20 2023 // With a staggering 50% of the current insurance workforce set to retire in less than 10 years, potentially leaving more than 400,000 positions unfilled, nearly every insurance organization is struggling to recruit new...
Nov 20 2023 // Federal safety regulators have brought the hammer down on a Louisiana contractor, deciding that the company failed to use correct safety equipment that would have prevented a fatal fall at an electric car plant...
Nov 14 2023 // Members of Generation Z who have worked with insurance agents believe they are knowledgeable and help them make better choices. Nevertheless, Gen Z is under-tapped in the independent agent channel and over-indexes on...
Nov 13 2023 // The notorious hacking gang Lockbit has posted what it described as documents belonging to Boeing Co. on its website, two weeks after claiming credit for a cyberattack against the aircraft manufacturer.LockBit recently...
Nov 9 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.Insights from NAMIC’s compliance webinar presented by AgentSync Solutions Architect Sandy Allen Did you know there were more than 250 changes to insurance...
Nov 7 2023 // The city of Boston will begin requiring construction and demolition contractors to file site-specific safety plans and attest to following them starting December 1.The requirement is part of the city’s implementation...
Nov 6 2023 // Insurance is a business of relationships. Even as our industry has added on new technology designed to support remote work and risk assessment, at the end of the day, nothing is more important in our business than...
Nov 3 2023 // Federal safety regulators have brought the hammer down on a Louisiana contractor, deciding that the company failed to use correct safety equipment that would have prevented a fatal fall at an electric car plant...
Oct 30 2023 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance will host a webinar Thursday, Nov. 2 to cover key changes in the state’s insurance license exam program. The Department said it has teamed up with Pearson VUE, a...
Oct 23 2023 // AXA XL Risk Consulting announced the launch of AXA Immersive Solutions, an innovative training solution leveraging virtual reality (VR) and digital twin technologies.AXA Immersive Solutions gives AXA XL’s risk...
Oct 17 2023 // A state commission has called for numerous changes to how Virginia and its communities respond to mass shootings, from establishing a victims` fund to teaching people how to slow bleeding before paramedics arrive.But the...
Oct 3 2023 // Five Black and Hispanic electricians who felt threatened when several nooses were found at an Amazon warehouse construction site in Connecticut have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the company and two...
Oct 2 2023 // The probable cause of a heli-skiing crash in Alaska in 2021 that killed a Czech billionaire and four others was a failure by the pilot to adequately respond to whiteout conditions, a federal accident report concluded.The...