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Search Continues for Remaining Body at Texas Plane Crash Site
Feb 27 2019 // Authorities have been searching a bay off southeast Texas for clues about what caused a Boeing 767 cargo plane carrying Amazon packages to nose-dive into the shallow water, killing all three men on board. A north wind...
What Young Insurance Agents Earn, Think and Say
Feb 27 2019 // Young agents want change. They want more diversity in the agency sales ranks. They want better paths to grow in their careers. They want other agents to adhere to professional standards and ethics. They want faster and...
New Investor Property Insurance Program Webinar to be Held Thursday, February 28
Feb 25 2019 // Atlanta, GA, February 25, 2019 — Jared Mathis, executive vice president and head of the Blue River Underwriters’ specialty property group will be presenting an informational webinar on a new investor property...
Millions in China Penalized Under Communist’s ‘Social Credit’ System
Feb 25 2019 // Skipped paying a fine in China? Then forget about buying an airline ticket. Would-be air travelers were blocked from buying tickets 17.5 million times last year for “social credit” offenses including unpaid...
Employees Have Upper Hand in Today’s Agency Job Market
Feb 18 2019 // Owners Must Show Them the Money, Culture and Other Perks As the insurance industry unemployment rate continues to hover at 1.7 percent, which is lower than the national average of 3.9 percent, insurance agencies face stiff...
Show Them the Money
Feb 18 2019 // To Win the War for Talent In today’s passive, candidate-driven market, employers do not have the upper hand in the recruitment process. Despite the rising rate of retirement among experienced professionals, which is...
Lockheed Martin Sued for Fraud over Washington Nuclear Site
Feb 15 2019 // The U.S. Justice Department is accusing Lockheed Martin Corp. of using false records and making false statements to bill the Energy Department for tens of millions of dollars in unauthorized profits and fees at the Hanford...
7 Different Insurance Career Options
Feb 13 2019 // This is Insurance Careers Month. I really enjoy when this comes around every year. It’s a chance for me to remind some (and educate others) that the insurance industry is a great career to work in. It has been good...
Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Site Ordered Closed After State Inspection
Feb 11 2019 // State regulators have ordered a medical marijuana dispensary in Acton, Mass., to close its doors temporarily. The Cannabis Control Commission announced on Twitter on Friday that it had issued a cease-and-desist order...
Shell Offshore Agrees to $2.2M Fine for 2016 Gulf Oil Spill
Feb 5 2019 // Shell Offshore Inc. has agreed to pay a $2.2 million civil fine to the federal government to settle charges that the company violated the Clean Water Act by spilling 1,900 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in May 2016...
Taking a Page from the Insurtech Playbook
Feb 4 2019 // How Insurtechs Can Help Attract Millennial Talent to Agencies, Carriers The rules of the game are changing for companies wishing to attract top, young, qualified talent. Millennials, Generation Y, Gen Next, Boomerang...
Navigating Today’s Nonprofit Insurance Market
Feb 4 2019 // Nonprofits are a lot like most insurance clients; there’s not much difference. They seek trusted and consultative relationships with their agents, brokers and carriers. They seek partners that understand their...
The Claims Talent Evolution
Feb 4 2019 // It should not be a surprise that drones fly over disaster areas for property inspection, and some insurers use chatbots to answer policyholders’ claims questions. Claims applications and supporting documents are...
Breckenridge Insurance Services To Hold Investor Property Insurance Webinar for Agents
Feb 1 2019 // Atlanta, GA, February 1, 2019 — Breckenridge Insurance Services will hold a webinar for agents who are working with insureds that have real estate investment portfolios such as property investors, property managers and...
Missouri Insurance Dept.: Insurance Education Scholarships Available
Jan 30 2019 // Insurance education scholarships are once again being made available to Missouri high school seniors and college students, the Missouri Department of Insurance announced. The deadline to apply for the Missouri Insurance...
Assessing Effects of Government Shutdown on Wildfires, Workforce, Research
Jan 28 2019 // The government may be reopening, but the consequences of the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history are likely to linger for national parks, forests, the federal workforce and cutting-edge scientific research. Some may...
Report Warns of Robots Taking Restaurant, Trucking, Clerical Jobs
Jan 28 2019 // Robots aren’t replacing everyone, but a quarter of U.S. jobs will be severely disrupted as artificial intelligence accelerates the automation of existing work, according to a new Brookings Institution report. The...
AmWINS Launches Social Engineering Crime Insurance Product
Jan 28 2019 // AmWINS Group, Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, has launched a new product designed to protect insureds against social engineering losses while also providing education and risk...
Why Many Americans Will Never Be Able to Retire: Viewpoint
Jan 25 2019 // Traditionally, Americans could look forward to a comfortable retirement. After four decades in an office or a factory, sometime in their 60s they would lay down their burdens and enjoy a final couple of decades with time...
Barrier Collapse at North Carolina Construction Site Kills 1
Jan 24 2019 // Authorities in North Carolina say one person is dead and two people are hurt after a barrier collapsed at a construction site. News outlets report the N.C. Department of Labor said the accident occurred Tuesday at a site...
