The most viewed headlines from our Training Development Topic Page over the last year.
Dec 20 2024 // With a “silver tsunami” of skilled underwriters eligible to retire in coming years and a shift in employee expectations, recruitment and retention is a critical focus for the insurance industry right now, said...
Mar 4 2024 // Over the next 15 years, 50% of the current insurance workforce will retire. It’s a jarring number. This leaves more than 400,000 open positions unfilled, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. At the same time,...
Jul 3 2024 // A Philadelphia jury has awarded $68.5 million in damages to the widow and son of a 38-year-old construction worker who was killed in 2021 in a fall from a fifth-floor balcony at a luxury townhouse site.Siarhei...
Jul 11 2024 // Honeywell did not violate workplace anti-discrimination laws by firing a white engineer who refused to participate in mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion training after the Black Lives Matter movement began, a U.S....
Jun 26 2024 // Residents of a California area near the town of Paradise, the site of the state’s most destructive wildfire in history, were ordered to evacuate and roads were closed this week as a wildfire spread.The Apache Fire in...
Dec 12 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor announced that its Office of the Federal Contract Compliance Programs has entered into a conciliation agreement with Ryan Companies US Inc. to resolve allegations that the federal...
Apr 12 2024 // Salvors continue to remove containers from the cargo ship Dali and clear wreckage at the Francis Scott Key Bridge incident site, according to the Unified Command, the group of U.S. Army, Coast Guard and federal, state and...
Jul 15 2024 // It’s no secret — independent insurance agencies are struggling to find qualified job candidates. And young talent may be even harder to find.According to a recent report by Vertafore, nearly a third of agents...
May 7 2024 // A steel drum weighing thousands of pounds somehow rolled out of a construction site in Pittsburgh and eventually struck and killed a woman who was walking on a nearby sidewalk, police said. The accident occurred around...
Jul 23 2024 // CRC Group, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, named Brent Tredway as sole president of the brokerage division and Chris Carlson as chief operating officer of CRC’s Commercial Solutions Division.Since 2020, Tredway...
Jul 30 2024 // Personal lines insurance comparison site The Zebra said it has acquired Marble, a digital platform for managing and saving on insurance.The acquisition is effective as of July 25, 2024. Terms of the deal, the first in The...
Jun 3 2024 // Discrimination, active assailants and an aging infrastructure — educational institutions today face tough liability and property risks that were uncommon in the not-too-distant past. Pair those with longtime risks...
Aug 20 2024 // The Supreme Court on Friday kept on hold in roughly half the country new regulations about sex discrimination in education, rejecting a Biden administration request.The court voted 5-4, with conservative Justice Neil...
Apr 16 2024 // The Vessel, a climbable sculpture that drew hordes of tourists to the Hudson Yards megadevelopment on Manhattan’s west side before a string of suicides forced its closure in 2021, will reopen to the public later this...
Feb 19 2024 // Four-year degree required. It’s been a standard part of job descriptions in the insurance industry for the better part of the past two decades. Now, it’s time for an overhaul.The college degree prerequisite,...
Sep 25 2024 // Brady Kelley, president and CEO of the Wholesale & Specialty Insurance Association, said the organization has been doing a lot to promote the E&S segment in hopes of attracting talent“There is no doubt a real...
Aug 12 2024 // Boston police reported that a construction worker fell to his death while working on restoring Emerson College’s Cutler Majestic Theater on Friday, August 9.Police were called to the scene on Tremont Street at 12:45...
Jul 22 2024 // ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays are on track to get a long-sought new ballpark following a city council vote Thursday on a major redevelopment project that also guarantees the team will stay where it is...
May 10 2024 // The body of the last missing construction worker killed in the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March has been recovered, officials announced Tuesday as demolition crews prepared to use explosives...
May 1 2024 // A group of newspapers, including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, sued Microsoft and OpenAI in New York federal court on Tuesday, accusing them of misusing reporters’ work to train their generative...