All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 7 2013 // Policyholder education about insurance coverage wording is a critical challenge for the property/casualty insurance industry. But who should be doing the teaching — agents or carriers?During a recent industry meeting, a...
Feb 6 2013 // A package of recommendations that would ban beginning drivers from using cellphones behind the wheel and make other changes aimed at reducing teen traffic fatalities and serious injuries is progressing through the South...
Feb 5 2013 // Arkansas Senator Missy Irvin of Mountain View announced she is drafting legislation to better prepare students and faculty in Arkansas for incidents of deadly school violence.Irvin said a goal of her legislation would be...
Feb 5 2013 // Des Moines, Iowa-based EMC Insurance Companies is partnering with SafeSchools to create safer learning environments for its insured schools.Schools insured by EMC will now have complimentary access to SafeSchools Training,...
Feb 4 2013 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has awarded a combined $300,000 in grants to Kilgore College, Midland College and College of the Mainland in Texas City near Houston. The grants will continue to fund free workplace safety...
Feb 4 2013 // Federal regulators are struggling to overcome substantial industry opposition and implement a sweeping aviation safety law enacted after the last fatal U.S. airline crash nearly four years ago, according to a report by a...
Feb 4 2013 // Mexican rescue workers found three more bodies over the weekend amid the rubble of a deadly blast that tore through state oil firm Pemex’s main office complex, the government said, as search efforts appeared to near...
Feb 1 2013 // Insurance experts who make their living predicting and paying losses overwhelmingly believe that the Baltimore Ravens are headed for a loss in Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVII (47 for those who never learned Roman...
Feb 1 2013 // A bill that would allow school districts to arm teachers and other personnel with guns was approved by the South Dakota House after supporters said it could make would-be attackers think twice about entering a school...
Jan 30 2013 // Superintendents of three small rural school districts that allow some teachers to carry guns told Texas lawmakers on Jan. 28 that the practice provides a critical measure of safety for students in the event of a campus...
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...