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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...
Lloyd’s Welcomes its New Graduates
Sep 23 2008 // Lloyd’s has welcomed the first group of candidates to be accepted in to its graduate program. The nine graduates have spent the past week learning about Lloyd’s and the London Insurance Market, meeting their...
South Carolina Coastal Risk Conference Garners Insurer Support
Sep 18 2008 // The American Insurance Association is participating in this week’s conference “Out of the Storm: Confronting America’s Catastrophic Risk Crisis,” organized by the South Carolina Department of...
South Carolina Safe Home Program Announces New Web Site
Sep 17 2008 // The South Carolina Safe Home Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program has a new Web site. The new site, www.scsafehome.sc.gov, offers information about the damage mitigation grant program as well as information about the...
Commissioner Rod Bordelon will present a Keynote Address at The Texas Workers’ Comp Forum
Sep 16 2008 // Dallas, TX, September 16, 2008 – Council on Education in Management (Council) announced that Division of Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Rod Bordelon will present a Keynote Address at the upcoming Texas...
West Virginia Insurance Department Going Paperless
Sep 11 2008 // The West Virginia Insurance Commission sent a heads-up to all insurance companies licensed to do business in the state, informing them that the department will accept only electronic rate and form filings beginning in...
Texas Work Comp Division Encourages Crane Safety in Wake of Accidents
Sep 10 2008 // Recent construction crane accidents causing injuries and accidents in Texas and elsewhere have prompted the Texas Department of Insurance to urge employers and employees to use safety precautions when operating cranes. In...
July Enforcement Actions in Texas Result in $500K in Fines
Sep 10 2008 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Commissioner of Insurance Mike Geeslin in July 2008 include nine license revocations, four license denials and fines and restitution totaling $539,814. Copies of Geeslin’s orders...
Alabama Streamlines Licensing Process
Sep 1 2008 // Since the beginning of Alabama Gov. Bob Riley’s administration, Insurance Commissioner Walter A. Bell said it has been the Department’s goal to streamline regulation and to reduce red tape. A new producer...
Will Baby Boomers Lead to Boost in Worker Woes?
Sep 1 2008 // Managing Risks With an Aging Workforce The aging and retirement of the Baby Boomer generation is creating a demographic transformation that will affect the staffs of insurance organizations, as well as their...
Speak Up if You Care …
Sep 1 2008 // The Case for Risk Management and Insurance Education If you’re like most insurance firms, your workforce is aging. Or, as a friend of mine recently put it, “There’s a lot of gray hair in the room.”...
Montana Launches Driver’s Ed/Insurance Classroom Training
Sep 1 2008 // Montana State Auditor John Morrison’s office has launched a new auto insurance training program for teen drivers. The program, called “The Road to Understanding Auto Insurance,” is free to high school...
No Absolutes in Agency Training and Recruitment
Aug 29 2008 // Recruiting and staffing in the insurance industry has never been as “hot” as it is right now, said Susan Henry, senior vice president, The Jacobson Group, an executive search, professional recruiting and...
