All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 18 2013 // Warwick, RI, 3/18/13 – Astonish, a leading digital marketing solutions and sales training provider for insurance agencies, encourages local insurance agency principals, CEOs, and presidents in Michigan and surrounding...
Mar 14 2013 // Richard “Gordy” Bunch, president and CEO of The Woodlands Financial Group, readily concedes that starting a personal lines-focused insurance business in Texas in 2001 – while the state was in the throes of...
Mar 14 2013 // Members of the Mississippi House want to steer the school safety debate back toward letting school districts arm teachers and employees.The House voted 70-46 Tuesday to amend Senate Bill 2659 to allow school districts to...
Mar 13 2013 // Working from home has become a hot topic following Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer’s announced plans in late February to bring telecommuters back into the office, and the issue is being taken up by some insurance firms,...
Mar 12 2013 // The Worldwide Broker Network’s Owners Conference in San Francisco from April 17 to 20 is expected to draw 200 industry professionals. The WBN event, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Nob Hill, is part of a tradition of...
Mar 11 2013 // Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan’s northeastern Pacific coast, debris containing asbestos, lead, PCBs — and perhaps most worrying — radioactive waste...
Mar 11 2013 // Richard “Gordy” Bunch, president and CEO of The Woodlands Financial Group, readily concedes that starting a personal lines-focused insurance business in Texas in 2001 – while the state was in the throes of...
Mar 4 2013 // An Arkansas House panel rejected a proposal that would have allowed some school employees to carry guns in schools after completing an active shooter training course.The House Education Committee voted against the measure...
Feb 28 2013 // A measure that prohibits beginning drivers from using cellphones or other electronic devices until they get unrestricted licenses at age 16 passed through a South Dakota House committee.But the Transportation Committee...
Feb 28 2013 // The political stalemate in Washington regarding the deficit and sequestration is not as dire or depressing as most people and pundits proclaim, and is in fact a positive sign that the country is grappling with important...
Feb 27 2013 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has released new advisory maps for Manhattan that include the World Trade Center site in the zone seen as most at risk for flooding during a powerful coastal storm.The construction...
Feb 26 2013 // Officials at Pacific Gas and Electric Co. are boosting the utility’s training on safety procedures after the deaths of three workers in three years, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.The deaths prompted PG&E...
Feb 26 2013 // The independent insurance agents’ online service for insurance buyers, Project CAP, has selected EZLynx to be the key real-time rating technology partner for its enhanced TrustedChoice.com website.The EZLynx Rating...
Feb 26 2013 // To boost their profitability, agencies make investments all the time in people and technology, as well as in other businesses through acquisitions. But Dan Epstein, CEO of ReSourcePro, says there is another often...
Feb 25 2013 // Federal and state officials say six underground tanks holding a brew of radioactive and toxic waste are leaking at the country’s most contaminated nuclear site in south-central Washington, raising concerns about...
Feb 25 2013 // Alabama’s new chief justice, Roy Moore, said the state judicial system is in danger and conditions will worsen if the Legislature approves a budget recommended by the governor.Moore said the system already is...
Feb 25 2013 // Difficult to access and usually within confined spaces, yacht fires can grow into big losses quickly, posing challenges to both firefighters and insurers.Severity, a concern for high-end watercraft insurers led to the...
Feb 25 2013 // It won’t be long before Mother Nature lets your customers know it’s time to get their boats out of storage and into the water. Other customers might decide it’s time to purchase that dream boat. Both of...
Feb 12 2013 // While a special school safety commission formed after the massacre of schoolchildren in Connecticut continues its work, Oklahoma legislators are pushing ahead with their own proposals to allow for armed teachers and more...
Feb 11 2013 // In its latest report on auto insurance premiums, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) said insurers charge higher premiums to safe drivers than to unsafe drivers. That claim seems to go against the grain when...