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IICF to Host 2023 Global Inclusion in Insurance Conference in NYC, June 13 – 15
May 22 2023 // Industry leaders, DEI and Sustainability experts will converge in NYC to discuss the future of work and more as the event continues to evolve from its early days as the IICF Women in Insurance Conference. LOS ANGELES –...
Alliant Insurance Foundation Announces Education Partnership With Louisiana’s Southern University
May 9 2023 // The Alliant Insurance Foundation, in partnership with Southern University, the Louisiana Department of Insurance, and the Spencer Educational Foundation, has launched its first initiative, funding a risk management and...
Officials Waiting for Insurance Adjusters at Site of Chemical Plant Explosion
May 9 2023 // Officials from pharmaceutical manufacturer Seqens and the city of Newburyport, Massachusetts are waiting on insurance adjusters to show before beginning demolition and cleanup at the Seqens facility where a worker was...
The Talent Crunch Part 2: Rethinking Your Approach to Recruiting
May 8 2023 // From time to time, my doctor prescribes a treadmill test to check out how strong my heart is. Perhaps you’ve experienced this test, but in case you haven’t, the idea is to make you run faster and faster up an...
Worker’s Body Recovered at Site of Explosion at Massachusetts Plant With Fire History
May 5 2023 // The body of a worker who died in an explosion at a Newburyport, Massachusetts chemical plant has been recovered and identified. The deceased has been identified by his family as Jack O’Keefe of Methuen. The body was...
RIMS Conference Cut Short by Fatal Shooting in Midtown Atlanta
May 4 2023 // A fatal shooting incident Wednesday that locked down portions of Atlanta as a suspect was on the loose, resulted in the early closing of RIMS’ Riskworld annual conference. The shooting occurred at a medical facility...
The National Alliance Announces Continuing Education Subscription for Insurance Professionals
May 1 2023 // May 1, 2023, Austin, TX – The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research announces a transformative learning subscription to help insurance professionals earn quality continuing education (CE) credits...
Maine Unhappy With Railroad’s ‘Good Faith’ Cleanup of Train Derailment Site
Apr 24 2023 // SANDWICH ACADEMY GRANT TOWNSHIP, Maine (AP) – The Maine Department of Environmental Protection is taking Canadian Pacific Kansas City to task over the cleanup following a freight train derailment and...
P/C Carriers Losing Ground to MGAs in Talent War
Apr 3 2023 // During a webinar about an insurance industry labor market survey, an industry recruiter said insurance carriers are losing ground to managing general agents in the war for talent. “On the property and casualty side,...
Winning the Referral Game with Real Estate Education
Apr 3 2023 // In the highly competitive world of property/casualty insurance, building a strong referral network is key to success. Referrals are an effective way to generate new business, as they come from satisfied clients who are...
The Talent Crunch Is Poised to Get Much, Much Tougher: Here’s How to Win
Apr 3 2023 // I recently participated in a discussion on agency challenges for a major commercial property/casualty carrier. When asked about their challenges, every single agency owner cited talent as their number one challenge....
AI Leaders Urge Labs to Halt Training Models More Powerful Than ChatGPT-4
Mar 30 2023 // Artificial intelligence experts and industry leaders, including Elon Musk, University of California Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak, are calling on developers to...
7 Bodies Recovered From Site of Pennsylvania Chocolate Factory Explosion
Mar 28 2023 // WEST READING, Pa. (AP) – All seven bodies have been recovered from the site of a powerful explosion at a chocolate factory in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania, officials said. West Reading Mayor Samantha Kaag...
What You Need to Know About the Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) Program
Mar 21 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. The driver shortage continues to be a major challenge for fleets across the country. That’s because the industry is short an estimated 80,000 drivers, a...
Don’t Get Too Comfortable — The Cyber Rollercoaster Ride Isn’t Over: PLUS Conference
Mar 20 2023 // Jeremy Gittler, practice leader and head of Cyber Americas at AXA XL, thinks of the cyber insurance industry as a rollercoaster. He says that after several years of turbulence with the advent of more sophisticated...
Investigators Cite BP Training, Safety Failures in Ohio Refinery Deaths
Mar 17 2023 // BP BP.L violated U.S. process safety rules and did not train workers properly at its Toledo, Ohio refinery, contributing to the death of two workers at the plant last year, U.S. federal investigators said on Thursday. The...
1 Worker Killed, 3 Injured in Wall Collapse at Manhattan Demolition Site
Mar 10 2023 // A worker died after a wall collapsed at a New York City demolition site and buried him in rubble, authorities said. The collapse happened Tuesday at a three-story building being demolished on Lafayette Street in lower...
P/C Carriers Losing Ground to MGAs in Talent War
Mar 6 2023 // During a webinar about an insurance industry labor market survey last month, an industry recruiter said that insurance carriers are losing ground to managing general agents in the war for talent. “On the property and...
A Pivot to People: Overcoming the Talent Crisis in Commercial P&C Underwriting
Feb 23 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Insurance Quantified. Across the insurance landscape, commercial P&C firms are facing a host of challenges when it comes to underwriting talent. Rapid shifts in the makeup of...
Florida Home Fire and Welding Site Explosion Kill Five People
Feb 22 2023 // Two people were killed and three others injured Tuesday when at least two tractor-trailers exploded at a truck and welding business in Miami. The Miami Herald and local TV news outlets reported that the explosion and fire...
