All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 24 2022 // Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch has filed a defamation lawsuit against an Australian news site over an opinion piece he says accused him of being complicit in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former...
Aug 4 2022 // A New Jersey construction company and its principal have been charged with willfully violating federal workplace safety regulations at a Poughkeepsie, New York construction site where a wall collapsed, killing a worker in...
Aug 1 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT.Only 2.5% of people can effectively multitask even in the best conditions.[1] That’s not great odds if you’re multi-tasking behind the wheel of a commercial...
Aug 1 2022 // With more than 1,000 managing general agents writing roughly $70 billion in direct premiums last year, researchers at Conning believe one growth driver is the fact that the managing general agency (MGA) model attracts...
Jul 26 2022 // A North Carolina environmental agency has approved a plan to test the soil and groundwater for contamination at the site of a massive fertilizer-plant fire in January.Montrose Engineering and Geology laid out its plans in...
Jul 22 2022 // A $6.3 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit that claimed smoke from an underground fire at a dumping site in northwest Arkansas harmed nearby residents.An attorney in the case confirmed the settlement, which...
Jul 20 2022 // Amwins Program Underwriters (APU), an operating company within the Amwins Underwriting division, has been busy over the last 18 months bringing in new underwriting perspectives to the long-standing Waste Haulers...
Jul 20 2022 // With more than 1,000 managing general agents writing roughly $70 billion in direct premiums last year, researchers at Conning believe one growth driver is the fact that the MGA model attracts talent.Conning listed the...
Jul 6 2022 // A Maine superfund mining site is receiving $21 million in Environmental Protection Agency funding to expedite contamination cleanup efforts. The Callahan Mine superfund site in Brooksville originally received $9 million...
Jun 29 2022 // The chief elected official in the Missouri county where an Amtrak train slammed into a dump truck said Tuesday that residents and county leaders have been pushing for a safety upgrade at the railroad crossing for nearly...
May 27 2022 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company is awarding $1.1 million in grants to 11 colleges across Texas to fund workplace safety courses for employers, workers and the general public. Texas Mutual—the state’s leading...
May 25 2022 // A three-day comment period opened Tuesday for a proposed group housing site for Hurricane Ida survivors in one southeast Louisiana parish, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said.Up to 75 families could be housed at...
May 19 2022 // Brookfield Asset Management Inc. agreed to buy emergency household repairs provider HomeServe Plc in a deal valuing the company at £4.1 billion ($5 billion), one of the UK’s largest take-private transactions this...
May 16 2022 // Ahead of next week’s special legislative session, Florida’s chief financial officer is asking lawmakers for $6.5 million to fund 23 new investigative positions and to launch a public education campaign, part of...
May 9 2022 // Rockford, IL., April 25, 2022 — Insurance King is a high-volume non-standard insurance agency and they are taking additional steps to educate their customers with one of their carriers of the potential for a 500%...
May 2 2022 // Dear Mary,Your team is in the thick of recruiting every day, not only for our open roles but for positions across the nation. I’m curious what you are seeing with: Candidate willingness (or not) to move to a new...
May 2 2022 // State Farm Insurance has awarded the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) with a $40,000 grant to promote and develop education programs throughout the state.ICT will use the grant to grow its multiple public service and...
Apr 26 2022 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) announced it will host the inaugural Captive & Insurance Business Transfer (IBT) Conference in Oklahoma City on August 24-25.The conference is designed for risk managers,...
Apr 19 2022 // State Farm Insurance has awarded the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) with a $40,000 grant to promote and develop education programs throughout the state.ICT will use the grant to grow its multiple public service and...
Apr 19 2022 // Insurance companies can conduct remote rather than on-site reviews of their managing general agents in Maryland beginning in October.Gov. Larry Hogan has signed legislation recommended by the state’s insurance...