All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 14 2015 // As the spotlight falls on Dutch crash investigators and their high profile probe into the downing of a Malaysian airliner, air accident detectives worldwide are waging a much more discreet daily battle to keep flying...
Oct 9 2015 // Massey Energy executives used an advanced warning system at the company’s Upper Big Branch mine to alert workers as soon as federal inspectors arrived on site, a former miner testified Thursday at the criminal trial...
Oct 6 2015 // When Volkswagen opened its gleaming pollution testing center near the California coast, a top executive from the German automaker helped snip the blue ribbon and joined a tour of a lab so advanced that VW would brag the...
Oct 6 2015 // ACE Group has launched two further enhancements to its ACE Travel Smart duty of care proposition for European business travel insurance buyers.The first of the new services is an online dashboard for human resources and...
Oct 5 2015 // Despite low unemployment, competitive salaries and overall job stability, a career within insurance or at an insurance agency, is often overlooked by today’s Millennial generation. However, with the industry in the...
Oct 5 2015 // BELMONT, MASSACHUSETTSBest Agency to Work For – East WT Phelan & Co. principals, from L-R: Robert J. Ramsey, David L. Ramsey, Thomas M. Ramsey and Richard R. Ramsey.Insurance Journal‘s 2015 Best Agency to Work...
Sep 30 2015 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Wednesday that it has finalized a $14 million plan to clean up contaminated soil from homes at the Sherwin-Williams/Hilliards Creek Superfund site in Gibbsboro and...
Sep 28 2015 // James Kennedy, CEO of the Ohio Mutual Insurance Group, was named the recipient of the 2015 Griffith Insurance Education Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award for his career-long dedication to education and support of the...
Sep 25 2015 // Delaware officials are celebrating the completion of a statewide effort to improve safety in public schools.Delaware Gov. Jack Markell joined education and law enforcement officials Tuesday to recognize the completion of...
Sep 23 2015 // International profile, excellent resume and broad-ranging skills are the qualities of the 20 young adults chosen by Generali for the first “Generali Global Graduate Program,” an international program aimed at...
Sep 22 2015 // Aon Benfield is examining how insurers and reinsurers can identify and capitalize on new growth opportunities amid challenging market dynamics at its 14th Biennial Hazards Conference in Australia. Aon noted that it’s...
Sep 14 2015 // Marshall University is requiring its fraternity and sorority chapters to undergo training for risk management and party hosting after hundreds of students had to be dispersed by police last month. Marshall says in a news...
Sep 8 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has spoken out against a proposal by state lawmakers to eliminate funding for driver education through public high schools as a way to help close a deficit in the state...
Sep 8 2015 // Georgia-based Palmer & Cay may have a lot of history behind it but what’s driving the expansion of the independent insurance brokerage into Texas is a very modern sense of what it takes to succeed in the...
Sep 7 2015 // Faced with an aging workforce, a shortage of incoming talent and an unemployment rate hovering around 2 percent, the insurance industry is encountering an increasingly challenging recruiting climate. In light of this...
Sep 1 2015 // The Kansas Insurance Department is considering whether insurance agents need more training.Currently, the state’s insurance agents are required to complete 12 hours of education every other year. Most states require...
Aug 27 2015 // Towergate Insurance, the UK insurance intermediary, reported a before tax loss of £58 million ($88.8 million) during the first half, compared with a £15 million ($23 million) before tax profit in the same period of...
Aug 20 2015 // Sometime after the sun came up Wednesday, a woman walking her dog past a fenced-off area in a sleepy suburban neighborhood near Tampa, Florida, heard a loud rumble. She quickly dialed 911.The earth had opened, again. By...
Aug 17 2015 // Fellow agents, Insurance Journal readers, experts, educators, marketing professionals, along with Theodore Roosevelt, Steve Jobs, Zig Ziglar, CNBC’s Kelly Evans, Harvard Business Review and Fortune magazine have been...
Aug 14 2015 // Federal safety officials who reviewed a highway crash in New Jersey that badly injured comedian Tracy Morgan and killed a friend were sharply critical of the emergency response to it and are urging the state to establish...