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Travelers’ Drone Program Is Changing the Way Its Claims Reps Do Business

May 11 2017 // Travelers’ Claim University, founded in 2007, is working to change the way its claims professionals do business through the use of drones to assist in property inspection and claims analysis.The nearly 200,000-square...

Georgia Colleges Grapple With New Law Allowing Concealed Handguns on Campus

May 11 2017 // Georgia’s public university presidents and police chiefs were strongly opposed to letting people carry concealed handguns on college campuses. Now that Gov. Nathan Deal has signed the campus-carry law, it falls on...

Berkshire Hathaway Goes Small with biBERK Online Commercial Site

May 10 2017 // It has been decades since anyone thought of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., or even its insurance operations, as “very, very small.”But that’s how a senior executive describes biBERK, a...

North Carolina’s Builders Mutual Establishes Construction Job-Site Safety Institute

May 5 2017 // Builders Mutual, a provider of commercial insurance for the construction industry in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, has established the Job-Site Safety Institute (JSI), a nonprofit organization that will conduct safety...

Aon Buys Provider of Talent Measurement & Psychometric Assessment

May 4 2017 // Aon plc announced it has acquired Hamburg, Germany-based “cut-e”, a specialist in online talent assessments.Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “At a time when the global workforce is...

Commercial Auto – The Long Road to Profitability

May 1 2017 // The commercial auto market has a long road ahead to reach profitability after five consecutive years of underwriting losses from 2011-2015. While many insurers upped rates in 2016, the year appears to be coming in with...

Online Rideshare Insurance Offering Debut by CoverHound

May 1 2017 // CoverHound is getting into the rideshare insurance business.The online insurance comparison shopping platform has partnered with several large carriers to offer auto insurance quotes in 24 states for people who drive for...

How New Technology Is Improving Workers’ Comp

May 1 2017 // New technologies are improving workers’ compensation programs in everything including communications and training, healthcare delivery, and claims, according to experts.Tom Ryan, market research leader for...

Why the Focus Should Be on Older Workers

May 1 2017 // Lately there’s been plenty of talk about attracting millennials to the insurance workforce. Employers are abuzz with plans to attract and recruit young talent. The only problem is the millennials aren’t showing...

Asbestos Removal At Nevada Site to Cost $53K

Apr 28 2017 // A small city in northern Nevada is moving forward with the demolition of its old police station.The Elko Daily Free Press reported the Elko City Council is considering awarding a $53,000 bid to a company to remove asbestos...

Workers Injured at Facebook Construction Site in California

Apr 28 2017 // Authorities say work has halted at a Facebook building under construction after an equipment failure caused part of the structure to collapse, injuring two workers.KNTV reported two construction workers were injured after...

31 Students Awarded Scholarships from Insurance Council of Texas

Apr 26 2017 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation recently awarded a total of $34,500 in academic scholarships to 31 students at five Texas universities.The students attend the University of Houston Main campus,...

Connecticut Insurance Department Launches Licensing Site

Apr 21 2017 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has launched a new licensing web site, designed to improve customer service for the nearly 200,000 agents, brokers, adjusters and other licensees who conduct business with the...

CoverHound Launches Online Rideshare Insurance Offering

Apr 20 2017 // CoverHound is getting into the rideshare insurance business.The online insurance comparison shopping platform has partnered with several large carriers to offer auto insurance quotes in 24 states for people who drive for...

Singapore Ranks Highest in Asia in Attracting Talent; No. 2 in Global Index

Apr 18 2017 // Singapore ranks the highest in Asia in attracting and developing talent, reflecting not only its world-class education system but how it’s adapting skills in the digital era.The city-state took the No. 2 spot behind...

Chicago Airport Police Scrutinized after United Passenger Dragging Incident

Apr 18 2017 // The video of a passenger being dragged by an officer from a United Express flight shined an unwanted spotlight on the little-known police force that guards Chicago’s two main airports and could threaten the...

Washington Commissioner Fines Insurance Professionals over Violations

Apr 17 2017 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler recently took disciplinary action and issued fines totaling $3,650 against insurance companies, agents and a continuing education provider who violated state insurance...

Risk Management: Employers Benefit from Mitigating Workplace Violence

Apr 17 2017 // Each year, close to 2 million workers are victims of workplace violence in the United States, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The federal agency defines workplace violence as any act...

Why Wait for Someone Else? Create Your Own Training Plan

Apr 12 2017 // I recently went back and looked at our survey results to read the comments again. I can’t help but thank you for your honesty and openness in leaving us your comments. As I read through the comments, one jumped off...

Zenefits Fined $1.2M for Violations of New York Insurance Law

Apr 12 2017 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has fined YourPeople Inc., doing business as Zenefits FTW Insurance Services, $1.2 million for allowing unlicensed employees to sell insurance and failing to...