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Cyber Attacks, Drones Pose Threat to Plane Safety: Allianz
Dec 9 2014 // Cyber attacks and commercial drones pose a growing risk of commercial airplane crashes, a major insurer said, running counter to a long-term decline in fatal accidents and insurance premiums. Technical advances in aircraft...
College Sexual Assault Charges Hard to Prove
Dec 8 2014 // An anonymous college student said in a media report that she had been gang-raped at a fraternity house. She told the reporter that she was drugged and beaten around the face, legs and vagina, yet a university dean ignored...
16 Higher Ed Students Land Scholarships from Insurance Council of Texas
Dec 5 2014 // Sixteen students at four Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $32,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation. The ICT announced that the students attend St....
Agency Groups Give Independent Insurance Agents ‘Big Agency’ Edge
Dec 1 2014 // Some believe the independent insurance agent may soon be on the endangered species list. Tighter margins and pressure from insurance carriers to meet increasingly higher production demands are putting the squeeze on every...
E&O Insights: Where Is Your Agency in the ‘E&O Marathon?’
Dec 1 2014 // There are similarities between deciding to run a marathon and managing your agency’s errors and omissions (E&O) exposure. Very few people, if any, can wake up one day, decide to run a marathon and then, without...
Texas Agent Group Acquires LevelFirst, Forms IIAT Services MGA
Dec 1 2014 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) announced it is continuing its tradition of providing insurance markets for small independent agencies with the acquisition of Dallas-based managing general agency...
Japan Assesses Damage from Earthquake in Olympics Site Region
Nov 26 2014 // The damage from an overnight earthquake in a mountainous area of central Japan that hosted the 1998 winter Olympics proved more extensive than initially thought. A daylight assessment Sunday found at least 50 homes...
XL Group Adds Fleet Safety Service to Construction Insurance
Nov 21 2014 // As nearly half of all construction fatalities involve a vehicle, XL Group North America Construction has added fleet safety training services to its construction insurance business in collaboration with Issaquah,...
Hospitals Improvise on Safety to Treat Ebola Patients
Nov 21 2014 // What does it take to Ebola-proof a hospital? Over the past few months, U.S. medical centers have spent millions of dollars putting together a plan to treat patients with the scary, but extremely rare disease. To a large...
Wisconsin Man Gets Jail for Bungee Jump at Insurance Company Site
Nov 19 2014 // A 26-year-old Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for bungee-jumping off a 138-foot crane in Sheboygan on the Fourth of July. The Sheboygan County district attorney’s office says Nick Propson of...
Fraud Controls Important When Hiring Seasonal Staff, Experts Say
Nov 18 2014 // With seasonal hiring in the U.S. expected to be at its highest level in years, fraud experts warn that companies that loosen their usual processes in order to add staff quickly put themselves at increased risk to...
Lack of Education
Nov 17 2014 // The biggest challenge in selling cyber insurance is educating businesses about the need for coverage but agents and insurers may be falling short in their role to deliver education when it comes to cyber coverages. A new...
Texas Agent Group Acquires LevelFirst, Forms IIAT Services MGA
Nov 13 2014 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) announced it is continuing its tradition of providing insurance markets for small independent agencies with the acquisition of Dallas-based managing general agency...
Cyber Attacks, Terrorism Are Top Emerging Risks for 2015: Guy Carpenter
Nov 12 2014 // Cyber attacks and terrorism are ranked among the top emerging risks concerning the (re)insurance industry in the year ahead, according to a survey released by Guy Carpenter & Co. According to the findings, new...
Oklahoma Chemical Storage Site Locations Available on Online
Nov 11 2014 // The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality has put on the department’s website the locations of chemical storage sites and other facilities in the state. The map also shows the locations of oil and gas wells,...
Nurse Who Survived Ebola Says More Training Needed
Nov 9 2014 // A nurse who was infected with Ebola after treating a sick patient said she didn’t have enough training beforehand on how to protect herself. “The first time that I put on the protective equipment, I was heading...
Former UNC Football Player Sues College Over ‘Sham’ Education
Nov 9 2014 // Former University of North Carolina football player Michael McAdoo has filed a lawsuit against the school, saying it failed to provide him and other athletes a quality education by guiding them toward sham classes. Online...
4 Dead as Plane Crashes into Flight Training Center in Kansas
Nov 7 2014 // The fatal crash of a small plane into a flight safety training center at the Wichita Airport has disrupted pilot training on some Cessna models, but efforts are being made to provide alternatives, company officials said. A...
George Named Nevada’s Division of Industrial Relations Administrator
Nov 3 2014 // Steve George has been named administrator of Nevada’s Division of Industrial Relations. George was appointed to fill the vacancy in October after previous administrator Don Soderberg was named director of the Nevada...
How to Determine Your Clients’ Cyber Exposures
Nov 3 2014 // Cyber Liability is certainly one of the hottest topics in both the media and insurance industry today. It seems like headlines and news stories announce new victims of data theft almost on a weekly basis. But even with all...
