Latest Training Development Headlines
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Becoming Chris Boggs
Jan 10 2010 // In October, 2008, my colleague and friend, Christopher J. Boggs, associate editor of MyNewMarkets.com and frequent contributor to Insurance Journal, wrote: “The beginning of mandated insurance continuing education...
Audits Hit Insurance Providers for Kentucky Cities, Counties
Jan 10 2010 // A state audit of a Kentucky municipal association – the second in as many months – has found problems with compensation, spending, conflicts of interest and procurement matters including in the operation of the...
Negotiations Falter at UN’s Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change
Jan 10 2010 // The United Nations’ Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change strained mightily and produced — a note. Co-authored by the United States and China as a last minute face saver, only five nations signed it. This...
Insurance Journal Launches Academy of Insurance
Jan 6 2010 // San Diego – (January 6, 2010) – After months of planning and preparation, Insurance Journal has launched its latest product for the property/casualty insurance industry: The Academy of Insurance. Led by...
Filipino Seafarers to Undergo Anti-piracy Training
Jan 5 2010 // The Philippines has ordered its seafarers, comprising about a third of the world’s commercial sailors, to go through anti-piracy training before they will be allowed to board ships, the labor secretary said...
Cheerleader, Teacher Sues ‘Dirty’ Web Site in Kentucky for Libel
Jan 4 2010 // A Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader who also works as a school teacher in northern Kentucky is suing a gossip Web site for libel over a posting that she says falsely claims she was exposed to two venereal diseases. The woman,...
Special Reuters Report: America’s Route to Recovery
Dec 29 2009 // When Bob Hagan was a boy in Youngstown, Ohio, people equated the coke dust they swept off their doorsteps each day with opportunity, for it came from the steel mills that built this city. After graduating from high school...
Utah Insurance Web Site Not Helping
Dec 24 2009 // A health insurance Web site intended to foster competition and reduce consumer costs by offering more choices on buying insurance plans isn’t working as lawmakers had hoped. The Utah Health Exchange was launched in...
5 Years After Deadly Indonesia Tsunami, Communities Better Prepared
Dec 23 2009 // Five years after a Sumatra Indonesia tsunami killed 230,000 people, officials say that more communities are taking the threat seriously, implementing warning systems and understanding that swift action is needed if a...
The Best Independent Agencies to Work For … And Why
Dec 20 2009 // The results are in from the “2009 Best Independent Insurance Agency to Work For” survey by Insurance Journal. The common theme resonating from the winning responses is one of family ideals. Regardless of size...
NOAA: United States Better Prepared for Tsunamis
Dec 18 2009 // Five years since the December 2004 Sumatra Indonesia Tsunami k illed 230,000, the United States has acclerated preparation for a potential tsunami along the U.S. coastline and built partnerships for an international...
Kentucky Audit Blasts Spending at County Insurance Provider
Dec 17 2009 // The association that sells and manages insurance programs for Kentucky’s 120 counties operates with a “self-serving culture” that has resulted in millions of dollars in questionable spending the past...
Web Site Profiles North Carolina Bank Robbers
Dec 11 2009 // Federal investigators are profiling bank robbers by giving them an online identity. The FBI and the North Carolina Bankers Association unveiled a Web site that includes photographs and information about bank robbers....
People
Dec 6 2009 // Monte Stringer, executive vice president with U.S. Risk Inc. in Dallas, has been elected president of the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. for the coming year. Stringer and other new officers and directors of the...
Nevada Test Site Workers Win OSHA Ruling
Nov 30 2009 // Former Nevada Test Site employees seeking compensation for exposure to radioactive and toxic materials might not have to estimate their exposure through costly and time-consuming dose reconstructions. The National...
Scientist Accuses Hackers of Climate e-mails of Attack on Conference
Nov 24 2009 // A leading climate change scientist, whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online, says the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month’s global...
Wisconsin Technical College Creates Insurance Education Program
Nov 23 2009 // Madison, Wis., Area Technical College has launched an Insurance Certificate Program to respond the needs of the growing insurance industry in that state. Wisconsin has the 6th largest concentration of insurers in the...
Senator Boxer Sees no US Accord in Time for Copenhagen Conference
Nov 18 2009 // Senator Barbara Boxer Tuesday predicted that the United States will not reach a consensus on carbon emission reduction goals for 2020 in time for December’s international global warming summit in Copenhagen. Boxer,...
Mass. General Surgery Training on Probation
Nov 18 2009 // A surgery training program at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital has been placed on probation by a national accrediting organization because some participants were working too much. The Accreditation Council for...
Montana Councilman Wants $2 Million Related to Asbestos Site
Nov 16 2009 // A city councilman in Libby, Mont., said Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency owes the asbestos-plagued Superfund community $2 million for the demolition of several contaminated buildings. The city-owned...
