All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 28 2017 // Karl Siegfried, Senior Vice President of Loss Control & Safety Services at Portland, Maine-headquartered MEMIC Group recently spoke with Insurance Journal about the safety management team that is in place at MEMIC and...
Feb 22 2017 // New technologies are improving workers’ compensation programs in everything from communications and training to health care delivery and claims, according to experts.Tom Ryan, market research leader for Marsh’s...
Feb 20 2017 // Cobbs Allen, a national insurance and risk management firm headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., has hired Tyrenda Williams-Reed as its new Human Resources director.Reed will be responsible for company-wide human resource...
Feb 20 2017 // Insurance agencies that stress “soft” benefits have the upper hand in recruiting workers in today’s competitive job market.Employees are increasingly seeking out “soft” benefits in addition to...
Feb 15 2017 // Patrick Wraight has been named the director of the Insurance Journal Academy of Insurance, a leading property/casualty insurance learning center that is part of the Wells Media Group.Wraight, an Army veteran, comes to the...
Feb 14 2017 // Insurance CEOs are more concerned than leaders in other industries about combined disruptive threats to their revenue growth prospects, according to findings from the 20th annual “PwC Global CEO Survey.”PwC...
Feb 8 2017 // A judge has cleared the way for dozens of former student’s in California’s Central Valley to take their school district to trial over fears that a job-training program exposed them to cancer.Attorney Allen...
Feb 8 2017 // With Insurance Careers Month underway, the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation announced that it expects to have provided more than $1 million in cumulative funding to Texas universities and their...
Feb 8 2017 // Many property/casualty insurance carriers have focused their charitable efforts on veterans, and they’ve done so for a number of good reasons.One important reason for adopting veterans causes was explained by Glenn...
Feb 7 2017 // Rogers & Gray Insurance, a South Dennis, Mass., headquartered independent insurance agency, has promoted Allison McEachern to senior vice president and director of human resources, effective January 2017.In her new...
Feb 6 2017 // What the final two years of California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones will entail is among the topics to be discussed during a conference in Southern California in March.The WIAA Education and Research Foundation will...
Feb 6 2017 // CNA reported fourth quarter and full year 2016 results, with its new CEO indicating that while there is a strong foundation at the insurer, the company has work to do in improving underwriting discipline and results and...
Feb 6 2017 // Hundreds of insurance professionals and representatives from local nonprofits will convene on March 16 for the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s annual Horizon Award Gala at the Natural History Museum of Los...
Feb 6 2017 // With nearly 400,000 employees expected to retire from the insurance industry workforce within the next few years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, it’s incumbent on carriers to consider the ways in...
Feb 3 2017 // Fire departments in nearly every pocket of Iowa have members who were awarded nationally-recognized certifications by the state fire academy despite failing their tests, according to documents released.The Fire Service...
Feb 2 2017 // The Missouri Department of Insurance reminds Missouri high school seniors and current college students that the application deadline for Missouri Insurance Education Foundation (MIEF) scholarships is March 31.Four $1,500...
Feb 1 2017 // A House committee has approved seven bills aimed at fighting the opioid crisis in Virginia. The legislation would limit the prescription of medications containing opioids, establish guidelines for the use of opioids to...
Jan 30 2017 // Hundreds of insurance professionals and representatives from local nonprofits will convene on March 16 for the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s annual Horizon Award Gala at the Natural History Museum of Los...
Jan 30 2017 // Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday accused the U.S. Labor Department of dismantling a website designed to help Wells Fargo workers file whistleblower retaliation and other complaints against the bank, and asked...
Jan 27 2017 // With nearly 400,000 employees expected to retire from the insurance industry workforce within the next few years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, its incumbent on carriers to consider the ways in which...