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AI Leaders Urge Labs to Halt Training Models More Powerful Than ChatGPT-4
Mar 30 2023 // Artificial intelligence experts and industry leaders, including Elon Musk, University of California Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak, are calling on developers to...
7 Bodies Recovered From Site of Pennsylvania Chocolate Factory Explosion
Mar 28 2023 // WEST READING, Pa. (AP) – All seven bodies have been recovered from the site of a powerful explosion at a chocolate factory in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania, officials said. West Reading Mayor Samantha Kaag...
What You Need to Know About the Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) Program
Mar 21 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. The driver shortage continues to be a major challenge for fleets across the country. That’s because the industry is short an estimated 80,000 drivers, a...
Don’t Get Too Comfortable — The Cyber Rollercoaster Ride Isn’t Over: PLUS Conference
Mar 20 2023 // Jeremy Gittler, practice leader and head of Cyber Americas at AXA XL, thinks of the cyber insurance industry as a rollercoaster. He says that after several years of turbulence with the advent of more sophisticated...
Investigators Cite BP Training, Safety Failures in Ohio Refinery Deaths
Mar 17 2023 // BP BP.L violated U.S. process safety rules and did not train workers properly at its Toledo, Ohio refinery, contributing to the death of two workers at the plant last year, U.S. federal investigators said on Thursday. The...
1 Worker Killed, 3 Injured in Wall Collapse at Manhattan Demolition Site
Mar 10 2023 // A worker died after a wall collapsed at a New York City demolition site and buried him in rubble, authorities said. The collapse happened Tuesday at a three-story building being demolished on Lafayette Street in lower...
P/C Carriers Losing Ground to MGAs in Talent War
Mar 6 2023 // During a webinar about an insurance industry labor market survey last month, an industry recruiter said that insurance carriers are losing ground to managing general agents in the war for talent. “On the property and...
A Pivot to People: Overcoming the Talent Crisis in Commercial P&C Underwriting
Feb 23 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Insurance Quantified. Across the insurance landscape, commercial P&C firms are facing a host of challenges when it comes to underwriting talent. Rapid shifts in the makeup of...
Florida Home Fire and Welding Site Explosion Kill Five People
Feb 22 2023 // Two people were killed and three others injured Tuesday when at least two tractor-trailers exploded at a truck and welding business in Miami. The Miami Herald and local TV news outlets reported that the explosion and fire...
Norfolk Southern Ordered to Clean Polluted Ohio Derailment Site
Feb 22 2023 // The U.S. government on Tuesday ordered rail operator Norfolk Southern Corp. to clean up contaminated soil and water at the site of a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and to attend all public meetings with local...
California High Schoolers to Learn Insurance Under Mandatory Finance Education Bill
Feb 21 2023 // How many adults not in the insurance industry can explain the risks financial loss and how insurance shares that risk, or identify factors impacting insurance premiums and grasp the relationship between premiums,...
Why a Focus on Development Is Critical to Retaining Talent
Feb 20 2023 // The insurance industry’s talent problems are no longer looming, they are here. While it may take many components to find a potential solution to this problem, one area that should get our immediate focus is employee...
Agency Salary Survey: Employee Pay Spikes As Agency Talent Pool Shrinks
Feb 20 2023 // On the heels of the lowest U.S. unemployment rate in 53 years, insurance agency employees across the nation reported the highest salary and compensation percentage increases in the history of Insurance Journal’s...
When Mother Nature Strikes; Working Together to Mitigate Natural Catastrophe Risk: AM Best Webinar
Feb 20 2023 // Climate change is contributing to increasingly intense natural catastrophes that leave larger and larger losses in their wake. What steps can the insurance industry take to prevent losses, protect clients, and ultimately...
Young Voices Reflect on Industry Talent Crisis
Feb 20 2023 // It’s no mystery: The insurance industry is experiencing a monumental shift. In June 2021, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a report citing U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers forecasting that over the next 15...
More Than 100 Firefighters Battled Huge Industrial Site Fire in North Carolina
Feb 13 2023 // More than a dozen fire departments responded to a massive fire early Saturday at an industrial site in Wayne County, North Carolina. County officials say the blaze, with flames as high as a three-story building at one...
‘Citizens’ Web Site Not Affiliated with Florida Insurer, Takes Users to Auto Quote Site
Feb 8 2023 // Investigators with Citizens Property Insurance Corp. are looking into a website that looks a lot like Florida’s largest property insurance carrier but may actually be fraudulent. “These sites typically ask for...
Talent Considerations for a Successful 2023
Feb 6 2023 // The insurance industry continues to settle into new working environments, grapple with the effects of “the Great Resignation” and prepare for a potential recession. While 2022 brought continued...
Locals Unhappy Over State Settlement With Superfund Site Owner BASF
Jan 30 2023 // TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — In hindsight, it’s clear that something was very wrong in this suburban town at the Jersey Shore, where many people worked at or lived near a chemical company that was flushing toxic waste...
Kentucky Officials Secure 2nd High-Ground Site for Flood Victim Relocation
Jan 26 2023 // State officials have secured another eastern Kentucky site with higher ground to build new homes for flooding victims. The 50-acre site is just a few miles from downtown Hazard, and the first-phase plan includes 150 new...
