All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 31 2014 // Harvard Law School was found in violation of Title IX, the law that prohibits gender discrimination in education, for its failure to respond adequately to sexual assault reports, the Education Department said.The law...
Dec 23 2014 // The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Board of Education, alleging that the board discriminated against pregnant teachers at Scammon Elementary School by subjecting them to adverse personnel...
Dec 16 2014 // Texas’ and the nation’s largest state level independent insurance agents’ association is about to lose its long-time executive director, but David VanDelinder plans to continue working with agents and...
Dec 15 2014 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), established in 1994, helps communities by uniting the collective strengths of the industry to provide grants, volunteer service and leadership. Since its inception, IICF...
Dec 15 2014 // Geoff SternerInsurance agents are known for protecting the lives of their clients by making sure they have the right insurance coverage when disaster strikes. But not many insurance agents can say that they literally saved...
Dec 15 2014 // Texas’ and the nation’s largest state level independent insurance agents’ association is about to lose its long-time executive director, but David VanDelinder plans to continue working with agents and...
Dec 9 2014 // Cyber attacks and commercial drones pose a growing risk of commercial airplane crashes, a major insurer said, running counter to a long-term decline in fatal accidents and insurance premiums.Technical advances in aircraft...
Dec 8 2014 // An anonymous college student said in a media report that she had been gang-raped at a fraternity house. She told the reporter that she was drugged and beaten around the face, legs and vagina, yet a university dean ignored...
Dec 5 2014 // Sixteen students at four Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $32,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation.The ICT announced that the students attend St....
Dec 1 2014 // Some believe the independent insurance agent may soon be on the endangered species list.Tighter margins and pressure from insurance carriers to meet increasingly higher production demands are putting the squeeze on every...
Dec 1 2014 // There are similarities between deciding to run a marathon and managing your agency’s errors and omissions (E&O) exposure. Very few people, if any, can wake up one day, decide to run a marathon and then, without...
Dec 1 2014 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) announced it is continuing its tradition of providing insurance markets for small independent agencies with the acquisition of Dallas-based managing general agency...
Nov 26 2014 // The damage from an overnight earthquake in a mountainous area of central Japan that hosted the 1998 winter Olympics proved more extensive than initially thought.A daylight assessment Sunday found at least 50 homes...
Nov 21 2014 // As nearly half of all construction fatalities involve a vehicle, XL Group North America Construction has added fleet safety training services to its construction insurance business in collaboration with Issaquah,...
Nov 21 2014 // What does it take to Ebola-proof a hospital?Over the past few months, U.S. medical centers have spent millions of dollars putting together a plan to treat patients with the scary, but extremely rare disease. To a large...
Nov 19 2014 // A 26-year-old Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for bungee-jumping off a 138-foot crane in Sheboygan on the Fourth of July.The Sheboygan County district attorney’s office says Nick Propson of...
Nov 18 2014 // With seasonal hiring in the U.S. expected to be at its highest level in years, fraud experts warn that companies that loosen their usual processes in order to add staff quickly put themselves at increased risk to...
Nov 17 2014 // The biggest challenge in selling cyber insurance is educating businesses about the need for coverage but agents and insurers may be falling short in their role to deliver education when it comes to cyber coverages.A new...
Nov 13 2014 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) announced it is continuing its tradition of providing insurance markets for small independent agencies with the acquisition of Dallas-based managing general agency...
Nov 12 2014 // Cyber attacks and terrorism are ranked among the top emerging risks concerning the (re)insurance industry in the year ahead, according to a survey released by Guy Carpenter & Co.According to the findings, new products,...