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People Moves: Risk Strategies Appoints Lyons National Education Practice Leader; Waypoint Wholesale Names Nickoles CEO
Dec 1 2021 // Risk Strategies Appoints Terry Lyons National Education Practice Leader Risk Strategies, a leading national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, announced that Terry Lyons has been appointed as the...
Independent Agents Can Access Tech Training, Tools with Catalyit
Nov 22 2021 // Independent agent associations in seven states have teamed up with the technology company Catalyit to help agencies assess and improve their use of data and technological innovations in the insurance arena. “Every...
Are Job Boards the Best Way to Find Insurance Talent?
Nov 15 2021 // Have you ever heard someone in your company say, “Let’s just cast a wide net to find candidates.” If so, job boards are your net, a bullhorn essentially for everyone on the internet to see. It’s a...
Hiring in A Virtual World: How to Successfully Compete for Talent
Nov 15 2021 // We just attended a Bend Venture Conference event this past week (in Bend, Oregon) that included many angel investors on various panels, as well as several new ventures pitching for those angel investments. There was a good...
Update: Leaders at COP26 Climate Conference Pledge to Cut Methane and Save Forests
Nov 2 2021 // GLASGOW – Leaders at the COP26 global climate conference pledged on Tuesday to stop deforestation by the end of the decade and cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane to help slow climate change. On the second...
Insurer Responsible for Damages After Massachusetts Officer Injured During Training
Oct 26 2021 // Driving a truck too fast and injuring a fellow officer during a firearms training is not within the scope of employment duties for a Massachusetts police officer, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found. This means...
New York Mandates Continuing Education for Insurers in Flood Insurance, Diversity
Oct 18 2021 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) is mandating continuing education in flood insurance for property/casualty insurance producers in response to the increasing risk of flooding due to climate change....
Pay Compression Creates Challenges for Agencies Hiring Client Service Talent
Oct 18 2021 // Dear Mary: Our agency is a regional, independent, privately held broker in the Midwest that has been in business for decades. Every year we hire young, inexperienced people to come into the business as assistants and CSRs....
Oil & Gas Services Company Sued for Racial Harassment, Retaliation at Texas Site
Oct 11 2021 // Federal equal employment officials say an Oklahoma-based inspection services company subjected black employee to a racially hostile work environment, then fired him for complaining. The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal...
UAE Property Group Makes High Bid for Surfside Condo Site
Oct 5 2021 // A Miami judge has approved the contingent sale of the Surfside, Florida, property where a 12-story condominium building collapsed in June, killing 98 people. A Dubai-based billionaire bid $120 million to buy the property,...
Federal Judge Overturns South Carolina School Mask Ban; Dept. of Education to Comply
Sep 30 2021 // A federal judge Tuesday suspended South Carolina from enforcing a rule that banned school districts from requiring masks for students. Parents of disabled children, helped by the American Civil Liberties Union, sued the...
Military Training Jet Crashes in Texas; Homes Damaged, Pilots Injured
Sep 21 2021 // A military training jet crashed Sept. 19 in a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, injuring the two pilots and damaging three homes but not seriously hurting anyone on the ground, authorities said. Both pilots managed to...
Surfside Commissioners Reject Proposed Land Swap at Site of Condo Collapse
Sep 17 2021 // Commissioners in Surfside, Florida, have rejected a proposal to trade public beachfront to the eventual buyer of the condominium collapse site so that a memorial to the 98 victims could be built there. The decision...
New Member Benefit Announced for MAIA Members through Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance
Sep 7 2021 // September 7, 2021 – The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) and the Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance are pleased to announce a new member benefit to bring the Academy of...
Connecticut Insurance Department to Host Conference on Climate Change, Insurance
Aug 31 2021 // The Connecticut Insurance Department and U.S. experts on climate change, resiliency, mitigation and adaptation are leading a discussion on what the insurance industry should consider to mitigate and adapt. On October 13...
Massachusetts Contractor Faces $1.3M in Penalties After Workers Die at Dig Site
Aug 31 2021 // At a Boston sewer repair worksite in February, Jordy Alexander Castaneda Romero and Juan Carlos Figueroa Gutierrez died after a dump truck struck and pushed them into a nine-foot deep trench. For their employer, Atlantic...
Fire Crews Battle Blaze at Former Philadelphia Refinery Site
Aug 26 2021 // Fire crews battled a blaze at the site of a former refinery in south Philadelphia that was the scene of a huge blaze two years ago. Police said fire crews were called just after 12:30 p.m. Monday to the former Philadelphia...
First Spanish-language Course Now Available from the Academy of Insurance
Aug 13 2021 // Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance is pleased to launch its first Spanish-language course. The Spanish version of the popular course “You Can’t Read Insurance Policies Like Anything Else“,...
Florida Professional Insurance Agents Announce Partnership with Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance
Aug 13 2021 // The Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) of Florida and the Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance are pleased to announce a new member benefit to bring the Academy of Insurance’s online courses and skills...
While Aon and Willis Were Focused on Merger, Marsh Attracted Producer Talent
Aug 5 2021 // While Aon and Willis Towers Watson were trying for many months to land their merger, their competitors were able lure away some of their producer talent – capitalizing on the “distraction and uncertainty”...
