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Idaho Agent Knows Job Safety Training and Employee Communication Pay Off

Sep 7 2009 // Nielsen Teaches Employers How to ‘Close the Window’ On Rising Comp Costs The best way insurance agents can teach employers about workers’ compensation is to get to know their business. Idaho insurance...

How Changes to Federal and State Law Impact Golf and Country Clubs

Aug 31 2009 // Changes to state and federal law over the past few years may prove to be no gimme for golf and country clubs. In fact, since many club owners and managers are unaware of the potential impact of these laws, a simple...

UK’s Chartered Insurance Institute to Host Conference on Terrorism

Aug 31 2009 // The UK’s Chartered Insurance Institute announced that its London Market faculty will hold a second “Counter Terrorist Workshop” in conjunction with the City of London Police on November 10. The CII said...

Honolulu Insurance Association Wins Award

Aug 20 2009 // Leila Tamashiro, president of the Honolulu Association of Insurance Professionals (HAIP), accepted the Jeffrey Nordhaus Education Award at the National Association of Insurance Women (NAIW (International)) regional meeting...

Work Hard Play Hard

Aug 17 2009 // Insurance Triathletes Prove their Endurance, Self-Discipline There are far easier ways to spend one’s leisure hours than slogging through tough early-morning runs, pedaling through sunburns and saddle sores and...

Training Service Staff to Help Boost Agency Revenue

Aug 17 2009 // Refocus CSRs to Roles Where They Fully Engage Customers Thanks to automation advances, insurance agency tasks that took hours can be done in a matter of minutes. Multiple data entry and one-by-one Web site visits have been...

Seeking to Boost Agency Business, Progressive Offers Web Site Help

Aug 14 2009 // Progressive Insurance wants to ramp up its agency business and plans to turn to a source of strength for its direct sales channel – the Internet – to help make that happen. As Glenn M. Renwick, president and...

Business Insurance Now Internet Site Offers Hartford’s Home, Auto Coverage

Aug 13 2009 // Web-based insurance seller Business Insurance Now has signed with The Hartford Financial Services group to offer home and auto policies. “Many small-business owners share a desire to simplify,” says Jim...

Denver Fire Department Admits Filing False Insurance Reports

Aug 12 2009 // The Denver Fire Department has acknowledged submitting incorrect training records to an agency that helps set insurance prices but says the errors weren’t deliberate. KMGH-TV in Denver reported Sunday that the...

Seatbelts, Cellphones, Handguns Addressed in New Texas Traffic Laws

Aug 12 2009 // The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has issued a summary of new traffic laws passed by the Texas Legislature that are set to become effective Sept. 1, 2009. Among those laws that may affect the property casualty...

Texas’ June Enforcement Actions Result in $441K in Fines, Restitution

Aug 10 2009 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during June included 18 license revocations, five license denials and fines and restitution totaling $441,318, the Texas Department of...

Ohio Revokes Agent’s License for Falsifying CE Hours for Other Agents

Aug 6 2009 // The Ohio Department of Insurance has revoked the insurance education provider contract and license of an agent the department found to be falsifying continuing education credit hours for hundreds of insurance...

New Spanish Language Web site for CRM International in Mexico

Aug 4 2009 // The Certified Risk Managers (CRM) International Program in México has a new home on the Web: www.crm-international.org. CRM en Espanol was first introduced in México by The National Alliance for Insurance Education...

Cal/OSHA Moves to Strengthen Heat Illness Prevention Regulations

Aug 3 2009 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations’ (DIR) Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has filed a proposal with the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to amend the...

Ohio Insurance Department Gets New Web Site Address

Aug 3 2009 // The Ohio Department of Insurance has a new Web site address: http://www.insurance.ohio.gov. The old address, www.ohioinsurance.gov, will remain active for a several months but will eventually be shut down in place of the...

EPA: Toxic Chemicals at Delaware Site Will Remain for 100 Years

Jul 31 2009 // The EPA project manager overseeing cleanup at the abandoned Metachem site near Delaware City says toxic chemicals will remain there for at least 100 years. Hilary Thornton spoke Tuesday night about the Environmental...

Louisiana Private Sector Sees Jobs Increases in June

Jul 29 2009 // The Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) has reported that the number of private sector jobs in Louisiana grew by 700 from May to June, led by increases in most major industry sectors. The job gains were offset largely by...

AIG, 6 Other Bailed Out Firms to Report Executive Pay by Aug. 13

Jul 29 2009 // Seven financial and automotive companies that have received “exceptional” government aid face an Aug. 13 deadline to submit compensation plans to the U.S. Treasury Department’s executive pay czar, people...

Governors’ Conference Puts Spotlight on Katrina Recovery in Mississippi

Jul 21 2009 // Governors attending their national convention in Biloxi on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast have seen signs of Hurricane Katrina recovery — glitzy casinos packed with tourists, new condominium towers rising along the...

For Award Winning CSR, Going ‘Above and Beyond’ is Part of the Job

Jul 20 2009 // What does it take to deliver outstanding customer service? Kimberly J. Muesse, a senior account manager with the Lockton Cos. in Houston, should know: She’s won a string of awards during her 25-plus years in the...