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Black Woman, County Settle New Mexico Profiling Lawsuit for $100K
Feb 21 2020 // New Mexico’s largest county has reached a racial profiling settlement with a black woman who was stopped by deputies three times in less than a month but never cited. Bernalillo County and Sherese Crawford reached a...
Oklahoma Senate OKs Bill to Allow More Armed Teachers
Feb 14 2020 // School teachers in Oklahoma with a gun license would be able to carry firearms into their classrooms with district approval under a bill approved in the state Senate. The bill, approved on a 37-7 vote mostly along party...
Real Estate Investor and Property Insurance Program Webinar for Agents to be Held Tuesday, February 18
Feb 14 2020 // Atlanta, GA, February 14, 2020 — The Specialty Property team at Blue River Underwriters will host an informative webinar on the real estate investor property insurance market and other commercial excess and surplus...
Members of Lloyd’s New Cultural Advisory Group Include Mental Health Specialists
Feb 13 2020 // Lloyd’s has announced the membership of its new, independent Culture Advisory Group, which has been set up as part of its action plan to drive long-term cultural changes in the market. Lloyd’s started its...
Insurance Comparison Site SelectQuote Plans IPO: Reuters
Feb 13 2020 // SelectQuote has hired investment banks for an initial public offering (IPO) that could value the owner of the eponymous insurance policy comparison website at more than $2 billion, including debt, according to people...
1 Injured, Cars Damaged in Scaffold Collapse at New Orleans Four Seasons Site
Feb 7 2020 // A section of scaffolding at the Four Seasons Hotel construction site in New Orleans collapsed onto at least a dozen cars on Feb. 5, leaving one person injured, as thunderstorms and high winds moved through the area. The...
Coronavirus Hits Trade Fairs, Industry Conferences
Feb 7 2020 // Feb 7 (Reuters) – Over two dozen large trade fairs and industry conferences in China and overseas have been postponed or hit by travel curbs and concerns about the spread of a coronavirus, potentially disrupting...
Pennsylvania’s Erie Insurance Announces Three Senior Vice President Appointments
Feb 6 2020 // Sheryl Rucker has accepted the position of senior vice president of Strategic & Integrated Services, a division of Information Technology at Erie Insurance. In this role, Rucker will have responsibility over a new area...
Researchers Create Extreme Weather Early Warning System from ‘Obsolete’ Tool
Feb 6 2020 // Rice University engineers have created a deep learning computer system that taught itself to accurately predict extreme weather events, like heat waves, up to five days in advance using minimal information about current...
Aon Acquires Canadian Cyber Security Firm Cytelligence
Feb 4 2020 // Insurance broker Aon reported it has acquired Cytelligence Inc., a Canadian-based cyber security firm that provides incident response advisory, digital forensic expertise, security consulting services and cyber security...
Worker Killed at Amazon Hub Construction Site in Kentucky
Feb 4 2020 // A worker was killed at an Amazon delivery hub under construction at an airport in northern Kentucky, authorities said. The workplace accident occurred Saturday at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport,...
Compensation Is Your Agency’s #1 Recruiting Tool
Jan 27 2020 // Employers find it difficult to hear that the entire kit and kaboodle of recruiting boils down to money. Insurance agencies would like to think there’s more to the story — work/life balance, career development...
New Year’s Resolution: Helping Policyholders Get in Shape for the New Year
Jan 27 2020 // As individuals, one way that we resolve to get in shape for the new year is by signing up for gym memberships and fitness classes. In that spirit, agents and brokers should resolve to help their policyholders get their...
CIWA Conference Hit on Array of Topics
Jan 27 2020 // California has a big year of issues ahead, including passing a massive budget through the Legislature, dealing with the fallout from wildfires in recent years, homelessness, and tackling climate change. Those were among...
Wyoming Firm Settles Religious Discrimination Suit
Jan 23 2020 // A Wyoming company has settled a federal lawsuit by a former employee who claimed she was pressured to take Scientology courses as a condition of her employment. Julie A. Rohrbacher filed the lawsuit in 2018 against Teton...
Strap on the Goggles. Employee Training Is Entering Virtual Reality.
Jan 22 2020 // The future of employee training involves no embarrassing role-playing in front of new colleagues or boring web modules which take an hour each to click through. For the next wave in workplace learning, get ready to strap...
The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research Releases 6th Edition of Executive Liability Insurance Publication
Jan 22 2020 // January 17, 2020 – Austin, TX – The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research released the 6th edition of Executive Liability Insurance: Evolving Times, Evolving Exposures, Evolving Insurance. Written by...
Boeing Employees’ Emails on Pilot Training Could Boost Crash Victim Claims
Jan 17 2020 // Internal emails from Boeing Co. employees could strengthen the legal case for families claiming the company’s push to minimize the training needed for new 737 Max aircraft contributed to two crashes that killed 346...
With Focus on Iowa, MIAA Hires Wright, Siegfried
Jan 17 2020 // The Midwest Insurance Agency Alliance (MIAA), a regional insurance agency network based in Lincoln, Nebraska, has added support Jamie Wright and Rebekah Siegfried to support the organization’s continued growth in...
Gig Economy Law Talk of California Insurance Wholesalers Conference
Jan 15 2020 // A sweeping California gig economy law was the focus of a lot of the talk this year during an annual insurance wholesalers conference. Assembly Bill 5, California’s gig worker law was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in...
