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Empowering the Future: Investing in Risk Management Education
Feb 16 2024 // Tallahassee, FL, February 16, 2023 — Florida is witnessing a surge in educational initiatives supporting the growth of the risk management and insurance (RMI) profession. The surplus lines market has more than...
Online News Site in Florida Shuts Down After Less Than a Year
Feb 2 2024 // WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Messenger, an ambitious online news site that billed itself as a nonpartisan digital outlet and spent some $50 million ratcheting up its business effort, abruptly shut down Wednesday...
Changing Risks Shape the Future of Agency E&O: Webinar
Jan 22 2024 // While today’s insurance agency errors and omissions (E&O) market remains mostly stable, emerging exposures, cyber risk, natural disasters and more could shape its course ahead. That’s according to experts...
Microsoft, OpenAI Hit With New Lawsuit by Authors Over AI Training
Jan 8 2024 // OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft were sued on Friday in Manhattan federal court by a pair of nonfiction authors who say the companies misused their work to train the artificial-intelligence models behind the...
US Seizes BlackCat Ransomware Site, Offering Decryption Tool
Dec 28 2023 // The US Justice Department seized websites belonging to a notorious Russian-speaking ransomware group, upending hackers that have extorted millions of dollars from victims around the world. The website for the extortion...
Large Fire Burns 2nd Residential Construction Site in 3 Days In Denver Suburb
Dec 20 2023 // Firefighters in the Denver metro area responded to the second large fire at an Aurora construction site in three days. Officials have not yet determined the cause for either fire and have not suggested that they were...
South Carolina Education Chief Wants Police to Have Maps of Schools for Response
Dec 15 2023 // GILBERT, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s top education official plans to ask lawmakers for $5 million to put a digital map of every school in the state online and make those maps immediately available on police...
Agency E&O Webinar: Panelists Discuss Changing Exposures, AI & More
Dec 13 2023 // While today’s insurance agency errors and omissions market remains mostly stable, emerging exposures, cyber risk, natural disasters and more could shape its course ahead. Insurance Journal gathered three experts to...
Meta Used Copyrighted Books for AI Training Despite Lawyers’ Warnings, Say Authors
Dec 13 2023 // Meta Platforms’ lawyers had warned it about the legal perils of using thousands of pirated books to train its AI models, but the company did it anyway, according to a new filing in a copyright infringement lawsuit...
Police Officer and Utility Worker Killed in Hit-and-Run Crash at Work Site
Dec 8 2023 // A pickup truck driver in a suburb of Boston is accused of crashing into a police officer and a utility employee at a work site, killing them, then pulling a knife on another officer before stealing his cruiser and...
Direction for NextGen Talent: The Best Way Forward Is Not Always Up
Dec 4 2023 // I believe you have to do what you love. My favorite subject in school was mathematics. To me, trigonometry and advanced calculus presented challenging but enjoyable and even exciting puzzles to solve. As I grew older, I...
Boston Begins Requiring Contractors to Implement Site Safety Plans
Dec 4 2023 // The city of Boston began requiring construction and demolition contractors to file site-specific safety plans and attest to following them on December 1. The requirement is part of the city’s implementation of a new...
Making a Great Place to Work: E&S Brokers Share Their View on Talent Strategies
Nov 20 2023 // With a staggering 50% of the current insurance workforce set to retire in less than 10 years, potentially leaving more than 400,000 positions unfilled, nearly every insurance organization is struggling to recruit new...
Louisiana Contractor Gets Max Fine After Fatal Fall at Hyundai Plant Site
Nov 20 2023 // Federal safety regulators have brought the hammer down on a Louisiana contractor, deciding that the company failed to use correct safety equipment that would have prevented a fatal fall at an electric car plant...
Travelers Webinar Focuses on Connecting Gen Z, Independent Agents
Nov 14 2023 // Members of Generation Z who have worked with insurance agents believe they are knowledgeable and help them make better choices. Nevertheless, Gen Z is under-tapped in the independent agent channel and over-indexes on...
Ransomware Gang Lockbit Posts What It Says Is Boeing Data on Site
Nov 13 2023 // The notorious hacking gang Lockbit has posted what it described as documents belonging to Boeing Co. on its website, two weeks after claiming credit for a cyberattack against the aircraft manufacturer. LockBit recently...
NAMIC Webinar Recap: Solving for Producer Compliance in Property & Casualty Insurance
Nov 9 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Insights from NAMIC’s compliance webinar presented by AgentSync Solutions Architect Sandy Allen Did you know there were more than 250 changes to insurance...
Boston Begins Requiring Contractors to File and Vow to Implement Site Safety Plans
Nov 7 2023 // The city of Boston will begin requiring construction and demolition contractors to file site-specific safety plans and attest to following them starting December 1. The requirement is part of the city’s...
Don’t Discount the Value of the On-Site Visit
Nov 6 2023 // Insurance is a business of relationships. Even as our industry has added on new technology designed to support remote work and risk assessment, at the end of the day, nothing is more important in our business than...
Louisiana Contractor Gets Max Fine After Fatal Fall at Georgia Hyundai Plant Site
Nov 3 2023 // Federal safety regulators have brought the hammer down on a Louisiana contractor, deciding that the company failed to use correct safety equipment that would have prevented a fatal fall at an electric car plant...
