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Texas Rabbi Relied on Security Training in Hostage Standoff
Jan 18 2022 // U.S. and British authorities Monday continued an investigation into the weekend standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended with an armed British national dead and a rabbi crediting past security training for getting him and...
Wholesale Brokers Look to Continue Offering Value While Addressing Talent Gap
Dec 20 2021 // The wholesale insurance market continues to grow premiums while providing value to retail agents and important options to their customers, according to a report commissioned by the Wholesale and Specialty Insurance...
‘Keep Delivering’: Amazon Tornado Tragedy Raises Emergency Safety Training Questions
Dec 17 2021 // The messages between an Amazon.com Inc. delivery driver and her boss began about 80 minutes before a tornado struck one of the company’s warehouses in Edwardsville, Illinois, on Dec. 10, killing six workers. The...
Wholesale Brokers Look to Continue Offering Value While Addressing Talent Gap
Dec 7 2021 // The wholesale insurance market continues to grow premiums while providing value to retail agents and important options to their customers, according to a report commissioned by the Wholesale and Specialty Insurance...
Charles Taylor Accelerates Growth Course in the US as it Launches New Business Lines, Acquisitions and Attracts Top-Tier Talent
Dec 7 2021 // Achieving Rapid Growth in the US Since Rolling Out National Expansion Strategy NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 7, 2021 – Charles Taylor Adjusting and Technical Services, a leading global loss adjusting business, today...
Future of Surety: Why the Industry Needs Knowledge Transfer and Education Now
Dec 6 2021 // Surety requires a highly complex and specialized form of underwriting. It is also an excellent career path for those who thrive on complex challenges, have a genuine interest in buildings and infrastructure, and enjoy...
5 Tips to Help Retain Talent During ‘The Great Resignation’
Dec 6 2021 // The talent war is about to get fiercer thanks to “The Great Resignation.” Millions of U.S. workers have quit their jobs, and research shows that nearly half of employees are actively looking to make a change....
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...
