All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 28 2013 // In its latest report on auto insurance premiums charged by the largest auto insurers, the Consumer Federation of America said these insurers frequently charge higher premiums to safe drivers than to those who recently...
Jan 28 2013 // When Brightway Insurance recently changed agency management systems, which took close to a year, it was one of the largest transitions of its kind in the insurance industry in terms of total users accessing a common hosted...
Jan 23 2013 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) has promoted Debra Taylor to assistant vice president of human resources and Jill Breard to assistant vice president of claims operations. Taylor has worked at LWCC since...
Jan 21 2013 // Environmentalists are decrying the placement of 18,000 damaged automobiles on a runway at a defunct defense plant on eastern Long Island, N.Y. The vehicles were destroyed by flooding from Superstorm Sandy.The town...
Jan 17 2013 // Michigan Gov. Rick Synder has proposed the creation of a new Department of Insurance and Financial Services.Snyder, who is beginning his third year as governor, said the new department will “emphasize consumer...
Jan 15 2013 // This post is part of a series on insurance marketing and training sponsored by Astonish.In part one, we defined effective leadership and why it’s essential to insurance agencies’ success in a marketplace...
Jan 14 2013 // Cross Insurance, a subsidiary of Maine-based Cross Financial Corp., and one of the largest independent insurance providers in New England, announced the establishment of a Boston office, specializing in higher...
Jan 14 2013 // P/C Insurance Joint Industry Forum Jan 15 Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY Insurance Information Institute www.iii.org2013 Big ‘I’ Winter Meeting Jan 16-20 The Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa, Rancho...
Jan 14 2013 // Do you believe in evolution? No, I don’t mean the theory espoused by Charles Darwin; I mean the idea that change is inevitable and even necessary in business. Do you believe that evolution is required for any...
Jan 11 2013 // Participants in a heavily attended Statehouse summit in Montgomery on school safety agreed Wednesday that taking steps to prevent tragedies like the Connecticut shooting massacre will be a priority when the Alabama...
Jan 8 2013 // There have been 106 ship losses reported worldwide in the 12 months since last to November 25 – an increase of 91 ships from the previous year but a 27 percent decrease on the 10- year average of 146 ships per annum.The...
Jan 1 2013 // A $100 million legal claim filed against the state of Connecticut in the wake of the deadly Newtown elementary school shooting has been dropped, local media reported on Tuesday.New Haven, Connecticut-based attorney Irving...
Dec 26 2012 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency is offering safety training to companies in the state’s booming oil patch, an effort to decrease job-related deaths and injuries happening most often to...
Dec 19 2012 // Columbus, Ohio-based The Griffith Insurance Education Foundation said it has provided insurance education to 279 teachers through the Insurance Education Institutes. The purpose of the program is to enable junior high and...
Dec 19 2012 // Seventy-eight Texas school districts either have failed to submit state-mandated safety plans in the event of a mass shooting or have filed ones that are too incomplete to be useful, Attorney General Greg Abbott said on...
Dec 19 2012 // Teachers and school administrators who receive proper training would be authorized to carry firearms on school campuses and at school events under a bill being drafted by an Oklahoma lawmaker.Republican Rep. Mark...
Dec 17 2012 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s Annual Buyer’s Guide, your A-Z for P&C.Looking for insurance services, products, and solutions? Save this valuable directory – it’s listed by category so...
Dec 13 2012 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) Northeast division made its largest-ever distribution of charitable grants at its sixth annual benefit dinner on Wednesday, Dec. 12. The total amount of awarded grants is...
Dec 12 2012 // When a Southern California family was convicted of workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud, it wasn’t due to sophisticated software, a supercomputer or even high-tech surveillance techniques.It was the...
Dec 12 2012 // A mock city designed to help emergency workers train for disasters is now open for business in central Georgia. The Telegraph reported that the first exercises are being held at the Guardian Centers at the former Northrop...