All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 5 2012 // I was recently talking with a regional wholesaler regarding her 2013 marketing plans. When we got to the topic of internet marketing and more specifically website banner ads, she told me they had tried it and it did not...
Sep 28 2012 // Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration wants to shift $20 million in hurricane recovery dollars for hurricanes Gustav and Ike to fill in budget gaps in the state’s free preschool program for at-risk students.The...
Sep 26 2012 // By David Connolly President iQ ConsultingAn excerpt from an interview with a successful agency owner DC: Historically, what has consistently been the biggest challenge you face as an agency owner?Owner: “In our...
Sep 24 2012 // Two University of Akron employees, including a Republican candidate for Summit County, Ohio sheriff, have resigned their positions after a university investigation concluded they violated the school’s sexual...
Sep 24 2012 // Congratulations to the winners of Insurance Journal‘s “2012 Best Independent Insurance Agencies to Work For” survey!As their employees put it: these agencies are doing all the right things. They provide...
Sep 24 2012 // IBA West is debuting InsurFEST next month in San Diego, Calif., a conference that focuses on leadership.The conference also affords IBA West members the opportunity to vote on a name change. The group, which represents...
Sep 20 2012 // Meemic Insurance Co., a Michigan-based insurance provider offering personal auto, homeowners, and umbrella coverages tailored exclusively to teachers and other educational employees, announced it will immediately begin...
Sep 20 2012 // The Caledonia County Sheriff’s Department and St. Johnsbury Police Department are going to teach young Vermont drivers about the dangers of distracted driving.The departments have been awarded an educational grant...
Sep 19 2012 // Senate Bill 863, or the more popular usage “SB 863,” was the phrase at the beginning, end or middle of many-a-conversation during the California Workers’ Compensation & Risk Conference on...
Sep 18 2012 // Standing in front of a crowd of several hundred members of the insurance industry, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders must have hit the nail on the head during a speech to the industry on Monday, because agreeable nods could be...
Sep 18 2012 // The father of one of the 100 people who died in a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire is asking the state to take by eminent domain the land where the nightclub once sat so a memorial can be built. Dave Kane’s son,...
Sep 18 2012 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the former Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. pulp mill in Frenchtown has potentially dangerous levels of dioxins, heavy metals and other hazardous chemicals, a finding that could...
Sep 18 2012 // Willis Germany, part of Willis Group Holdings, announced that it will be demonstrating the special features of “Willis Electronic Plus,” at the 27th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition...
Sep 17 2012 // Who is leaving companies and why? And how do employers hold onto key employees?The incentives to get employees to stay are not exactly the same as the factors that would cause them to leave, according to the Talent 2020,...
Sep 17 2012 // As high unemployment persists and the global economic recovery remains halting and uneven, the “resume tsunami” appears to have been reduced to a “resume riptide.”According to Deloitte’s...
Sep 13 2012 // Two months ago when Barry Gilway took over as president of Florida’s state-run property insurer, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., he quickly learned there would be no honeymoon period. He was thrust into debates...
Sep 11 2012 // Eleven years after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the new multibillion-dollar World Trade Center once again dominates the lower Manhattan skyline. Hundreds of construction workers are at the 16-acre site every...
Sep 10 2012 // Vermont is well-known for, among many other things, its leading captive insurance industry — home to more than 900 captives.The state’s captive insurance advocacy group, the Vermont Captive Insurance Association,...
Sep 10 2012 // A new Florida law seeks to reduce the regulatory burden on agents and adjusters by consolidating some licenses and revamping the education classes they must take.Among the changes: insurance adjusters and agents operating...
Sep 6 2012 // Companies, municipalities and universities in Kentucky that contributed to what was once one of the largest hazardous waste facilities in the United States should have to pay for its cleanup, the group managing what is now...