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Risk & Insurance Education Alliance Launches Certified Insurance & Risk Professional (CIRP) Designation Program
Jan 20 2026 // AUSTIN, TX — The Risk & Insurance Education Alliance has launched the Certified Insurance & Risk Professional (CIRP) designation, a program designed to strengthen the technical knowledge, sales capabilities, and...
Publishers Seek to Join Lawsuit Against Google Over AI Training
Jan 16 2026 // Publishers Hachette Book Group and Cengage Group asked a California federal court on Thursday for permission to intervene in a proposed class action lawsuit against Google over the alleged misuse of copyrighted material...
What’s New at the Risk & Insurance Education Alliance in 2026: Innovation, Education, and AI Integration
Jan 15 2026 // As we enter 2026, the Risk & Insurance Education Alliance continues its mission to deliver insurance education, risk management training, and innovative learning tools for professionals. In a recent discussion with...
Risk & Insurance Education Alliance Becomes First Official Sponsor of the InsHER Podcast
Jan 12 2026 // Austin, TX – 1/10/2026 – The Risk & Insurance Education Alliance proudly announces its role as the first official sponsor of the InsHER Podcast, a groundbreaking series dedicated to celebrating and elevating women...
Board Calls for US Steel to Address Safety Issues as It Rebuilds Site of Fatal Explosion
Dec 30 2025 // The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has issued interim safety recommendations in connection with the agency’s ongoing investigation into the August 11, 2025, fatal explosion at U.S. Steel’s...
New York Times Reporter Sues Google, xAI, OpenAI Over Chatbot Training
Dec 24 2025 // An investigative reporter best known for exposing fraud at Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos sued Elon Musk’s xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta Platforms and Perplexity on Monday for using copyrighted...
Rise of AI Impacts Grand Rapids Region, Companies Face Talent and Market Challenges
Dec 12 2025 // West Michigan remains a leader in job and population growth across Michigan, but there are signs momentum has slowed amid staffing challenges, tariffs and the rise of artificial intelligence. Forty-six percent of Grand...
Education Dept. Workers Targeted in Layoffs Return to Tackle Civil Rights Backlog
Dec 10 2025 // The Trump administration is bringing back dozens of Department of Education staffers who were slated to be laid off, saying their help is needed to tackle a mounting backlog of discrimination complaints from students and...
Connecticut Launches Site to Help Consumers Understand Insurance Needs
Dec 2 2025 // Connecticut Insurance Department (CID) announced the launch of the Consumer Information Center, an online resource to help citizens better understand and navigate their insurance coverage and make informed decisions about...
Unlocking the Future Workforce in High School: The Impact of Emerging Talent Programs and Local Industry Engagement
Dec 1 2025 // The future of insurance is sitting in today’s classrooms. We hold this truth to be self-evident: when young people gain insurance knowledge, real exposure to professional pathways, and meaningful engagement with...
Norfolk Southern Revives Plans for Firefighter Training Near Site of Ohio Derailment
Nov 24 2025 // Norfolk Southern railroad worked with the state of Ohio and Youngstown State University to revive plans for a $20 million first responder training center near the site of the worst derailment in a decade in East Palestine,...
Designing for Impact: How Evidence-Based Instructional Design Ensures Measurable Learning in Insurance and Risk Education
Nov 20 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Risk & Insurance Education Alliance. In corporate education, completion certificates alone do not prove mastery of the curriculum or competency on the job. For risk and...
1 Worker Dies, 2 Injured in Trench Collapse at Cape Cod Construction Site
Nov 19 2025 // One worker died and two were injured in a trench collapse at a construction site in a popular seacoast town on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The trench collapse happened on Tuesday morning at a sewer project work site located...
Florida’s Tiawanya S. Wiley Named 2025 National Outstanding CSR of the Year, by The Risk & Insurance Education Alliance
Nov 17 2025 // The Risk & Insurance Education Alliance is proud to announce that Tiawanya S. Wiley, AIAM, Customer Experience Manager for Responsive Insurance in Naples, Florida, has been named the 2025 National Outstanding CSR of...
Vermont Christian School Challenges State’s Education Funding as Discriminatory
Nov 10 2025 // The Mid Vermont Christian School is challenging Vermont’s education reform law in federal court, arguing that the law’s set of provisions around public tuition dollars “creates a religious gerrymander and...
Zurich Invests Heavily in Underwriting Talent to Boost Mid-Market, Specialty Growth
Nov 7 2025 // Zurich Insurance Group is continuing to expand its middle market and specialty footprint by investing heavily this year in targeted recruitment of “top-tier underwriting talent” across the company. “In...
St. John’s University and ACORD Partner On Executive Education Programs
Oct 27 2025 // New York City’s St. John’s University is partnering with ACORD, the standards-setting body for the insurance industry, to offer virtual or in-person learning to employees of organizations that are members of...
Employee Accused of Stealing 47 Vehicles From Car Rental Site at Airport
Oct 27 2025 // An employee allegedly stole 47 vehicles from an Avis Budget site at an upstate New York airport and rented them out around the region, police said Friday. The car rental company reported to authorities that the vehicles,...
Ransomware Ensnares $4.3 Trillion Muni Market’s Key Site
Oct 16 2025 // A ransomware attack is disrupting state and local borrowers’ ability to post debt documents on the $4.3 trillion municipal-bond market’s main distribution platform. MuniOS, a website operated by Ann Arbor,...
Explosion at Orange Site in Paris Injures Workers, Affects 80,000 Users
Oct 10 2025 // An explosion occurred at one of Orange’s technical sites in Paris on Thursday, injuring three workers, two critically, and disrupting communication services for 80,000 users, the district mayor said. The incident...
