Latest Training Development Headlines
All the headlines from our Training Development Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mitigation Consensus
Jan 24 2011 // The Griffith Insurance Education Foundation recently brought together industry, government and academic leaders — many from disaster-prone coastal states such as California, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi for a...
The Insurance Community University Announces Webinar Classes Approved for CE in California
Jan 20 2011 // January 20 2011 – The Insurance Community University announces the unveiling of its ‘Lecture Series’ of Webinar Classes approved for CE in the state of California. The Insurance Community University is...
SSK Insurance Offers Teen Driving Simulator Program
Jan 18 2011 // Lynden, Wash.-based Snapper Shuler Kenner Insurance (SSK Insurance), an independent insurance agency with offices in Lynden and Bellingham, Wash., has launched SSK Drive-Safe, a free simulator driver training program for...
Texas Work Comp December Enforcements Include Fines Up to $78K
Jan 18 2011 // Final enforcement actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) for December 2010 include fines of up to $78,000. Division of Workers’ Compensationfinal...
Producer Training and Future Success
Jan 10 2011 // Focused producer development and training are absolutely essential to long-term selling success. “Smiling, dialing and quoting” doesn’t build long-term client relationships. Long-term relationships are...
Calif. Homeowners Underinsurance Regulations May Require Agent Training
Jan 10 2011 // California’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has approved regulations designed to combat underinsurance and may require insurance agents and brokers to complete additional training. The regulations will take...
Insurance Journal Academy of Insurance Instructor Spotlight
Jan 10 2011 // Mary Eisenhart Learn the business-building techniques Mary Eisenhart teaches on a daily basis at her own 14-year-old consulting firm. Beginning Febr. 17, 2011, Eisenhart will begin her three-part series, “The How...
The Academy of Insurance and Insurance Professionals
Jan 10 2011 // Welcome to 2011! And Welcome to Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance. We at the Academy of Insurance are excited about this year’s program of study. Because of our commitment to the insurance industry and...
Consensus: Consumer Education Needed to Reduce Disaster Losses
Jan 6 2011 // With more than 50 percent of the country’s population living in coastal counties, there is an urgent and extensive need to convince consumers to adopt a long-term view of catastrophic risk. That is the conclusion of...
PuroClean to Open New Property Restoration Training Facility
Jan 5 2011 // Florida-based PuroClean, which specializes in property emergency restoration services, announced plans to open a new Applied Structural Drying (ASD) Demonstration Facility. The company said the facility is only the 17th...
CompPartners Names Hutchings Account Manager
Jan 5 2011 // Sue C. Hutchings has joined CompPartners, a workers’ compensation, disability, and group health managed care organization, as account manager. She brings 25 years of experience to the position, having most recently...
California Approves Homeowners Underinsurance Regulations
Dec 31 2010 // California’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has approved regulations designed to combat underinsurance and may require insurance agents and brokers to complete additional training. The regulations will take...
Insurance Vital to Alabama Coast Long-Term Plan, Says Commission
Dec 21 2010 // Coastal Alabama should seize the BP Gulf oil disaster as an opportunity for “resiliency planning” that will not only help the region recover from the oil damage but also put it in a position to better recover...
Young Agents Survey:
Dec 20 2010 // Why Young Agents Stand by Their Career Choice Most enter the insurance business by accident but for young independent insurance agents, the decision to stick with insurance as a permanent career is a matter of choice. A...
Music and Producer Development
Dec 20 2010 // How to Set the Tune for Sales Success in an Agency Great music combines so many elements. When terrific lyrics are combined with an awesome arrangement, the result is powerful. And sometimes if you separate the two, the...
How an E&O Claim Could Affect Agency Employee’s Career
Dec 20 2010 // Survey Finds Agencies Take a Second Look at Hiring Employees With Past E&O Histories Today’s soft insurance market, reduced commissions and a tough economy for agency owners and their clients might be adding to...
Chartis Expands Education, Training Options to Private Client Group
Dec 14 2010 // Chartis has expanded its Private Client Group University (“PCG-U”), a continuing education and training program designed for insurance and other financial services professionals who advise high net worth...
Network Matches At-Home Insurance Retirees with Employers
Dec 5 2010 // Introducing WAHVE, Where Outsourcing Is Not a Foreign Concept As more and more experienced insurance agency and carrier employees discover their retirement income isn’t what they thought it would be, many are happy...
New Web Site Calculates Diminished Car Value for Consumers
Dec 1 2010 // The people who launched TheyWroteOffMyCar.com are at it again with a new Web site service called MyCarIsWorthLess.com. That’s worth less, not worthless, according to the announcement. It’s supposed to help...
E&O for Agents – A Necessity Even if Mistakes Don’t Happen
Nov 1 2010 // Errors and omissions insurance is available, and necessary, not just because mistakes happen. A customer’s perception can be that the reason a loss was not covered, valid or not, was the result of an agent’s...
