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Academy of Insurance Offers Free Videos as ‘Building Blocks’ for Insurance Education
Nov 14 2017 // Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance is offering micro-videos at no cost to insurance professionals through its new Building Blocks tool. The Building Blocks tool supplies professionally created micro-videos for...
Insurance Journal, Insurance Careers Movement Partner on ‘Cool’ Job Contest for Under-40 Pros
Oct 16 2017 // Insurance Journal today launched a contest in conjunction with Insurance Careers Movement on what young insurance professionals believe is the coolest part of their job. It’s a bit tricky, however, because...
New Association for Insurance Agency Networks Forming
Oct 2 2017 // An insurance industry lender is among those touting a new association for insurance agency networks. The lender, Live Oak Bancshares Inc., says it will not have ownership in the new group, Insurance Networks Alliance...
eServices Partners with Insurance Journal for the 2017 Risk Management Summit
Aug 7 2017 // Peabody, MA, August 7, 2017 – eServices, a specialized platform focused on providing turn-key risk management, claims, marketing, and technology solutions through its various entities, is pleased to announce that...
U.S. P/C Insurance Industry Mostly Silent on Trump Exit from Paris Climate Accord
Jun 6 2017 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry, which has been facing rising claims bills for extreme weather events, mostly reacted with silence to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the country from the...
Travelers’ Drone Program Is Changing the Way Its Claims Reps Do Business
May 11 2017 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Travelers’ Claim University, founded in 2007, is working to change the way its claims professionals do business through the use of drones to assist in property inspection and claims...
Insurance Charity Benefits Make-A-Wish, Honors Wells Chief
Apr 3 2017 // In a room packed with insurance industry professionals, an undeniable air of gratitude hung over those who were doing the giving. Speaker after speaker came up and talked to the audience at a charity event about how...
Steamin’ Hot Markets: Cyber, Sharing Economy, Active Shooter, Construction, Mergers and More
Mar 20 2017 // Cyber Sharing Economy, Active Shooter, Construction, Mergers and More Insurance Journal examined industries experiencing changes, challenges, expansions and growth in the past year. For 2017, experts predict the U.S....
Insurance Charity Benefits Make-A-Wish, Honors Wells Chief
Mar 17 2017 // In a room packed with insurance industry professionals, an undeniable air of gratitude hung over those who were doing the giving. Speaker after speaker came up and talked to the audience at a charity event about how...
What’s Up with Salaries at Insurance Agencies?
Mar 9 2017 // Salaries for insurance agency management, owners, principals and producers were up in 2016. Total compensation for support staff also increased, although not by as much as it did the year before. That’s according to...
Wraight Named Insurance Journal Academy Director
Mar 6 2017 // Patrick Wraight has been named the director of the Insurance Journal Academy of Insurance, a leading property/casualty insurance learning center that is part of the Wells Media Group. Wraight, an Army veteran, comes to the...
Opinion: The Insurance Industry’s Image Problem & How They Can Fix It
Feb 3 2017 // The insurance industry has an image problem. That is probably not really breaking news to anyone reading this, but it’s an important topic to discuss and one the industry can address and, believe it or not, an issue...
2016 Insurance Journal Timeline: From Chubb/Ace to Google to Trump
Jan 30 2017 // The merger of Chubb with Ace, Google shutting down its insurance operation, 10 things insurance agents like and don’t like, Florida’s water loss claims crisis, the launch of Lemonade, Trump’s plan to...
Today’s Insurance Agency E&O Costs, Coverage and Claims
Jan 10 2017 // Independent agency owners spend their entire careers worrying about the risks and exposures of others. Managing the risks of their own agencies can take a backseat to helping their clients. While agents appreciate the...
Southeast Regulation Report Card: North Carolina Flunks; Florida, South Carolina Dispute Grades
Jan 9 2017 // North Carolina ranks the worst of all 50 states when it comes to insurance regulation, according to a 2016 insurance regulation report card by an insurance industry think tank. The R Street Institute’s 2016 Insurance...
Why Young Insurance Agents Are So Optimistic
Dec 29 2016 // It’s no secret that the insurance industry is facing a huge talent gap. Almost half of all insurance professionals are over age 45, with 25 percent of the industry expected to retire by 2018. That’s a...
Ex-Players Drop Case to Force NFL to Pay Workers’ Compensation for Concussions
Dec 28 2016 // The federal court case brought by 38 former National Football League players seeking to force the NFL to recognize chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) as a covered disease under workers’ compensation has been...
Southeast Regulation Report Card: North Carolina Flunks; Florida, South Carolina Dispute Grades
Dec 22 2016 // North Carolina ranks the worst of all 50 states when it comes to insurance regulation, according to a 2016 insurance regulation report card by an insurance industry think tank. The R Street Institute’s 2016 Insurance...
Insurance Journal and Demotech, Inc. Announce Super Regional P/C Insurer Conference 2017 for C-Suite Professionals
Dec 12 2016 // Lake Geneva, WI, December 12, 2016- Insurance Journal and Demotech, Inc. announced their inaugural Super Regional P/C Insurer Conference, held July 16-18 2017 at the Grand Geneva Resort & Spa in Lake Geneva,...
Plans Underway for Super Regional P/C Insurer Conference 2017 for C-Suite Professionals
Dec 3 2016 // Insurance Journal and Demotech, Inc. announced that the inaugural Super Regional P/C Insurer Conference will be held July 16-18 2017 at the Grand Geneva Resort & Spa in Lake, Geneva, Wis. The theme of the event is...
