All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 17 2022 // Insurtechs are continuing to disrupt the insurance industry, while pushing traditional insurers to focus on modernization initiatives and how they can best leverage the capabilities of data and analytics. While global...
Oct 3 2022 // For years, the insurance industry has battled a looming talent crisis, and the threat of that crisis is becoming more urgent.According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 50% of insurance workers will retire...
Sep 29 2022 // Our editorial team caught up with attendees at the 2022 InsureTech Connect conference in Las Vegas. Industry experts took the time to discuss what this year’s theme, The Future of Insurance, means to them. They also...
Sep 6 2022 // At a 131-year-old maritime academy along Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts, people who will build the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm are learning the skills to stay safe while working around turbines...
Sep 5 2022 // The insurance industry is experiencing a reshuffling of talent, an aging workforce and ongoing disruption. Its vital insurance organizations are exploring their current talent strategies to successfully attract and retain...
Sep 2 2022 // State police say the body of a worker was found in the rubble of a collapse at a construction site in Pennsylvania.Trooper Megan Frazer said the body of the 30-year-old man was found at about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday at the site...
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...