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Textron Aviation Cited for 2019 Explosion at Kansas Site
Jul 1 2020 // Federal regulators have cited aircraft maker Textron Aviation for a December 2019 explosion that injured 15 workers at its Wichita, Kansas, manufacturing plant. U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and...
Bullying and Harassment Increase for Some Workers in Pandemic Lockdown: Opinion
Jun 23 2020 // Working from home should have liberated employees from toxic workplace behavior such as bullying and harassment. Amid the lockdowns, gone are undesired office encounters, business trips, round-the-clock conferences and...
Beazley Launches Contingency Policy Covering Virtual Event Organizers
Jun 22 2020 // Specialist insurer Beazley has launched a contingency policy designed to cover event organizers if a transmission failure disrupts or cancels a live virtual event. The insurer acknowledged that streaming live events is not...
What It Takes for a New Insurance Agent to Succeed
Jun 19 2020 // Developing young talent to become successful young agents is not easy. Chris Burand, president of Burand & Associates, an insurance agency consulting firm, estimates that the new producer failure rate is as high as 70%...
California Appoints Curriculum and Insurance Guarantee Board Members
Jun 18 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced the newest members of the California Department of Insurance’s Curriculum Board and the California Insurance Guarantee Association’s Board of...
It Takes a Crisis to Make You Change Your Game
Jun 15 2020 // Jon got the mail as he pulled up into the drive. There was a thick envelope from the credit card company. Jon opened it, and the balance was much bigger than he’d expected. Jon and his wife had a bad habit. They used...
Producer Recruiting and Retention Is the Same Issue for Agencies
Jun 15 2020 // Why? This is the entire question for agencies when it comes to producer recruiting. Well, maybe not. Here are the elongated versions of questions I field on this issue. Why is it so hard to find sales candidates? Why...
Guest Post: Looming Large: Liability for Flood Losses
Jun 9 2020 // Thanks to Friend of the Academy of Insurance, Joe Harringon, for this guest post. Joe is an independent business researcher and writer specializing in property and casualty coverages. He is also a regular instructor with...
Fire at Historic North Carolina Plantation Site Damages Building
Jun 3 2020 // An early morning fire damaged a building at Stagville, a state historic site that includes remnants of one of the largest plantations in North Carolina. The Durham County Sheriff’s Office said fire rescue personnel...
How COVID-19 Is Changing Insurance for Schools
Jun 1 2020 // Lilian A. Vanvieldt, senior vice president, educational entities practice leader, for Alliant, has spent more than three decades insuring schools across the country. Her book spans from small school districts to very large...
Agency Says Asbestos Cleanup Complete in Montana Superfund Site
May 29 2020 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the completion of all required cleanup activities within a unit of a Montana Superfund site. The federal agency removed a portion of an asbestos-contaminated mining...
National Alliance to Resume In-Person Educational Offerings. CIC and CISR classroom programs to be held in Austin in June
May 22 2020 // Austin, TX, May 22, 2020 — The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research announced that it will conduct two in-person courses after it had temporarily suspended all in-person classroom sessions due to...
Results: Cannabis Webinar Live Polls
May 18 2020 // Which will have the biggest impact on cannabis and insurance the rest of this year and into next? COVID-19 33.22% Vaporizer bans and related illnesses 13.36% Legalization 19.52% Legislation (SAFE Banking, CLAIM Act) 24.66%...
Man Dies in Fall at South Dakota Construction Site
May 15 2020 // A 24-year-old man died on May 12 in a fall at a downtown Sioux Fall, South Dakota, construction site, police said. Police were called around 10:45 a.m. about a man injured at the construction site of the First Premier Bank...
Maine’s The MEMIC Group Releases Back-to-the-Workplace Safety Guidance
May 8 2020 // As states begin to lift restrictions on employers in various segments of the economy, MEMIC, a Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation insurance specialty company, has released an employer guide for...
Trump Administration Revises Sexual Assault Response Rules for Schools
May 8 2020 // Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday issued a new policy that will reshape the way schools and universities respond to complaints of sexual misconduct, bolstering the rights of the accused and narrowing the scope...
NFL Kicks Off Plan to Reopen Team Facilities; MLS Soccer Allows Player Workouts
May 8 2020 // The NFL has set protocols for reopening team facilities and has told the 32 teams to have them in place by May 15. In a memo sent by Commissioner Roger Goodell and obtained Wednesday night by The Associated Press, several...
Temporary Licensing Process Implemented for New Jersey Insurance Producers
May 6 2020 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) has implemented a process for issuing temporary licenses to eligible individuals seeking to become insurance producers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The temporary...
Raising Workers’ Total Health With Workers’ Comp The Many Ways a Job Affects a Worker’s Well-Being
May 4 2020 // Workers’ compensation leaders are being urged to move away from thinking primarily about how best to prevent and treat a worker’s physical injury to considering how to help the whole worker. It’s a...
TDI’s Licensing, Continuing Education Adjustments
May 4 2020 // More details on TDI’s adjusted rules for agent licensing and continuing education can be found on the department’s website: tdi.texas.gov. Below are some highlights: New and Temporary Licenses On April 22, TDI...
