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Kentucky Army Base Fighting Fire that Started in Training Area
Oct 27 2022 // Fort Campbell staff are using controlled burn techniques to manage a fire that started in a training area last week, base officials said. The fire started near Trigg County, Kentucky, during routine training. Clinton...
Building the Workforce of Tomorrow with K-12 Cybersecurity Education
Oct 26 2022 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Cybersecurity is becoming more important in an increasingly digital world, and experts agree that good cybersecurity starts with a good education. As the use of technology and tech platforms...
Flexsteel to Pay $9.8M For Contamination Cleanup at Indiana Site
Oct 26 2022 // Flexsteel Industries Inc. has agreed to a consent decree that requires it to pay $9.8 million for the cleanup of contamination at the Lane Street Ground Water Contamination Superfund Site (Lane Street Site) in Elkhart,...
Academy of Insurance Audiobook Reaches #1 on Amazon!
Oct 24 2022 // San Diego, CA. October 24, 2022 — This week, two books published by the Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance reached #1 and #2 on Amazon’s Property Insurance category, respectively. The audiobook version...
Risk Strategies Acquires Relation Education Solutions in California
Oct 17 2022 // Risk Strategies acquired Relation Education Solutions from Relation Insurance Services. The deal adds key capabilities to Risk Strategies’ National Education Practice. A division of California-based Relation...
Identifying the Right Talent for Your Insurtech
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...
How Charitable Giving Can Solve the Industry’s Talent Problem
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...
Industry Experts Talk Future of Insurance at 2022 ITC Conference
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...
Offshore Wind Farm Worker Hiring and Safety Training Ramp Up
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...
Recruiting and Retaining Claims Talent in the Candidate’s Market
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...
Body of Construction Worker Found After Pennsylvania Construction Site Collapse
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...
Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch Sues Australian News Site for Defamation
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...
New Jersey Contractor Arraigned for Worker Death at Poughkeepsie Construction Site
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...
Curbing Distracted Driving Starts with a Commitment to Education and Enforcement
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...
Are MGAs Winning the Insurance Talent War?
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...
North Carolina Agency to Test Soil and Water at Fertilizer Plant Explosion Site
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...
$6.3 Million Settlement Reached over Arkansas Dump Site Fire
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...
Amwins Program Underwriters Brings New Talent to Waste Haulers Underwriting Team
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...
Are MGAs Winning the Insurance Talent War?
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...
Maine Mining Superfund Site to Receive $21M
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...
