Latest Training Development Headlines
All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
From Seed to Supermarket
Oct 20 2008 // Agricultural Risks Require the Knowledge and Skill of Specialty Agents Agribusiness insurance has grown significantly as food production has become a global commodity. Since World War II there has been a dramatic reduction...
Financial Crisis Dominates European Risk Manager Debates, Conference
Oct 20 2008 // One of Pat Oliphant’s more recent editorial cartoons shows presidential candidate John McCain held in the trunk of an enraged elephant labeled “The Economy.” “My friends,” says McCain to a...
AIG Agrees to to Recover Top Executives’ Pay, Cancel Conferences
Oct 17 2008 // American International Group, the insurance giant that drew fire for executive “golden parachutes” and an ill-timed junket even as it receives a massive taxpayer bailout, has agreed to mend its ways. AIG...
New York City Hosts Crane Safety Conference
Oct 17 2008 // Crane safety experts from around the nation are meeting in New York City to discuss national standards following several deadly crane accidents this year. Nine people died in two crane collapses earlier this year in...
Oregon Launches Web site for Finance Questions
Oct 14 2008 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has launched a Web site to help address concerns about the security of personal finances. The Web page addresses common questions about insurance policies, bank and...
XL Gives Preliminary Q3 Estimates; Conference Call Details
Oct 13 2008 // Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd has provided the following “preliminary metrics” on its expected third quarter 2008 results. XL said its independent auditors are currently reviewing the results for the quarter,...
York Insurance Services Group, Inc. Acquires Site Inspections LLC, Now Offering Nationwide Loss Control Services
Oct 10 2008 // PARSIPPANY, N.J., (October 10, 2008) – York Insurance Services Group, Inc., a premier national provider of insurance services, including claims handling, specialized loss adjusting, managed care, insurance pool...
AIG Crisis Highlights the Need for Insurance Professionalism
Oct 10 2008 // American International Group’s meltdown may serve at least one (if not more) positive purpose: spotlighting the difference between the insurance professional and the non-professional. Insurance professionals will...
Florida Web Site to Help Teen Drivers
Oct 8 2008 // Teenage drivers can now share their own safety tips and experiences behind the wheel with other teens across Florida. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles says the site, TakeTheWheel.net, was created...
Texas Orders Nearly $220K in Fines, Restitution in August
Oct 6 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during August resulted in four license revocations, three license denials and fines and restitution...
West Virginia Resort Loses Another Insurance Conference Over Labor Rift
Oct 6 2008 // An insurance group has canceled another conference scheduled at The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia because of an ongoing contract dispute between the resort and its employees. The Council of Insurance Agents and...
S.C. Safe Home Program Updates Web Site
Oct 6 2008 // The South Carolina Safe Home Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program has a new Web site. The site, www.scsafehome.sc.gov, offers information about the damage mitigation grant program as well as information about the various...
Soft Market Challenges
Oct 6 2008 // Relationships, Recruiting, Training Key to Survival Soft market conditions could last for another nine months to five years, predict representatives from the agent, broker, carrier, reinsurance, and excess and surplus...
North Carolina Insurance Department Hosts International Burn Conference
Oct 1 2008 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance Office of State Fire Marshal and the UNC Healthcare Jaycee Burn Center are the co-hosts of the 2008 World Burn Congress in Raleigh. Each year more than 500,000 people are treated...
California Agents Alliance Launches George Joseph Educational Foundation
Oct 1 2008 // The Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers has created the George Joseph Educational Foundation to support insurance training for association members, provide educational scholarships for the next generation of insurance...
Access General Agency Launches New Web Site
Sep 30 2008 // Woodbury, NY, September 30 2008 – Access General Agency (AGA), the leading provider of homeowners insurance solutions to independent brokers in the United States, has launched a brand new fully-interactive web site...
Number of Volunteer Firefighters Falling in Texas
Sep 30 2008 // Membership among volunteer firefighters in Texas has dropped to levels predating a surge brought on by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks seven years ago, a state official says. Many found firefighting less glamorous than they...
Labor Dispute Costs West Virginia Resort another Insurance Conference
Sep 26 2008 // A business group canceled another conference scheduled at The Greenbrier because of an ongoing contract dispute between the West Virginia resort and its employees. The Washington, D.C.-based Council of Insurance Agents and...
Oracle Unveils Oracle Insurance at San Francisco Conference
Sep 24 2008 // In response to global insurance industry software needs, Oracle has formed a new business unit, Oracle Insurance, and unveiled Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Foundation Pack for Insurance at the San...
Best to Hold Conference Today on Ike, AIG Rating, Other P/C Events
Sep 24 2008 // A.M. Best announced that a number of leaders of its insurance ratings team will address a variety of important property/casualty market issues in an online briefing set for today, Wednesday, September 24 at 9 a.m. Eastern...
