All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 19 2014 // Across North Carolina, medical examiners fail to follow crucial investigative steps, raising questions about the accuracy of thousands of death rulings, a Charlotte Observer investigation found.The living face the...
May 5 2014 // Bruce Cochrane of the Renaissance Alliance says agents have to measure everything to stay competitive, however that does not mean relying on technology alone, according to experts who work with and for agencies.“Many...
May 2 2014 // Two Tacoma business owners entered guilty pleas on Friday in Pierce County Superior Court after Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson leveled multiple charges against them for allegedly selling substandard asbestos...
May 2 2014 // The U.S. Education Department is investigating 55 colleges for failing to prevent and respond to sexual assaults and harassment on campus.The colleges are being probed for violations of Title IX, the law that bars gender...
May 1 2014 // The call to become an insurance agent is different for everyone.For Matthew Ostrow the call to become an independent agent came via social media. Thirty-year old Ostrow entered insurance just five months ago after a...
Apr 29 2014 // A divided U.S. appeals court revived efforts by oil companies to force the federal government to reimburse them for the cost to clean up a Southern California site where they had dumped toxic sludge during World War II.By...
Apr 29 2014 // The young agent members of Texas’ largest independent agents association will once again kick off the group’s annual conference with a community service project.This year, the young agents of the Independent...
Apr 29 2014 // A White House task force called for U.S. colleges to conduct mandatory surveys to reveal the frequency of sexual assault on their campuses and student attitudes toward such misconduct.The Obama administration will provide...
Apr 28 2014 // Columbia University and Barnard College mishandled incidents of sexual assault and misconduct on campus, according to a complaint filed yesterday with the U.S. Education Department by 23 students.The complaint alleges...
Apr 24 2014 // Divers retrieved more bodies from a South Korean ferry that sank last week, as investigators turned their attention to whether the vessel had been carrying more cargo than it was designed to hold.The official death toll...
Apr 21 2014 // Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. said that Eddie Dunn has joined the firm as director, Military and Veteran Affairs.In this role, Dunn will support the U.S. Veterans Talent Initiative Marsh & McLennan announced last...
Apr 21 2014 // Lloyd’s has published a more detailed strategy for 2014-2016, setting out how it will work towards achieving its goals, embodied in its “Vision 2025” Plan, which details “how the Corporation will...
Apr 21 2014 // A consumer advocacy group is urging New York regulators and legislators to undertake a thorough review of rate-making practices by auto insurers in New York.The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) said that...
Apr 21 2014 // There are 3,141 counties and county equivalents in the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. (USGS CoreFacts, U.S. Geological Survey) Counties build and maintain 45 percent of the public roads and 230,690 of the...
Apr 17 2014 // Twenty four insurance and risk management students at five Texas universities were recently awarded academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation.The students attend Huston-Tillotson...
Apr 16 2014 // The Griffith Insurance Education Foundation announced that, as of April 15, its office will officially relocate from Columbus, Ohio, to Malvern, Penn.In 2012, The Griffith Foundation affiliated with The Institutes, an...
Apr 10 2014 // The numbers of teen driving deaths and injuries have fallen in North Carolina but moving violations are up since the state’s General Assembly imposed new requirements on young drivers and their parents before teens...
Apr 7 2014 // A consumer advocacy group said its analysis shows some of New York State’s largest auto insurers are charging higher premiums to motorists who have less education and non-professional, non-managerial jobs.The New...
Apr 7 2014 // Like many of my peers, I grew up in family-owned independent insurance agency and sort of inherited the insurance bug. Unlike most of my peers, our family’s agency is minority-owned and I’m younger than 40.The...
Apr 7 2014 // The insurance industry is on the cusp of a talent crisis as its workforce continues to “gray.” According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 50 percent of the industry’s workforce is above the age...