Insurance Training Course Catalog
2020 ISO Commercial Auto Changes
Change happens more often than we are comfortable with. It also seems to come along just when we get used to a particular policy form. Well, in 2020 ISO released updates to the Commercial Auto program. Join us as Academy Director Patrick Wraight walks us through the changes and helps us answer the question: what's with these changes and how can I help my clients understand them?
COVID-19's Lasting Legacy: A Review of Court Decisions and Trends
It's true that the COVID-19 pandemic created situations that many couldn't see coming. The flurry of business income claims and lawsuits are creating a stir in the legal landscape of our country. Join us as Crystal Uebelher helps us to understand some of the impacts of these suits and helps us look into the future to discover where we go from here.
Personal Lines Myths
Most insurance professionals would agree that personal lines policies are relatively easy to work on. The coverages can be straight forward and the clients really just want their risks covered at the best possible price. Join us as David Thompson helps us to navigate some common myths and misunderstandings centered on personal lines policies.
Insuring Self-Driving Cars, Scooters, and Other Modern Transit Risks
Every new car commercial today tells us about how the car can drive itself in some way. From the cars that have an auto-pilot to the trucks with active lane maintenance and sonar speed control, the automotive marketplace is changing. Join us as Kevin Amrhein helps us to understand how these features and other modern transit risks can impact your clients' personal lines policies.
Workers' Comp: Rates are Down, but Significant Risks are Up
As workers' compensation rates go down, it seems that the risk is lower. Rates generally go in the direction of the actual risk, right? Well, in this session, Frank Pennachio will show us that the raw risks might be down so that the rates are going down, but there's another side to this coin in that there are larger risks that haven't gone away. In face, they might be increasing. Join us and find out why.
Understanding Occupational Disease in the Age of COVID-19
One of the questions related to the COVID-19 pandemic revolves around workers' compensation insurance. Join us as James Moore helps us to understand the impact of COVID-19 and workers' compensation. Is it possible that a worker could contract COVID-19 while at work and is that compensable? James plans to help us with these questions and more.
Business Continuity and Extra Expense
If the pandemic of 2020 taught us anything, it's that business interruptions happen. Today's environment is proof of how critical it is for businesses to plan to stay in business in the event they cannot operate due to a covered or non-covered event. Join us as Richard Faber helps us to understand the issues involved with business interruptions and how business income and extra expense coverage might apply in these cases.
The Future of Claims and Technology
The claims process can be daunting from a consumer's perspective. For the claims professional that is working in the process to get claims completed, it's just as difficult at times. In this session, we plan to help insurance professionals to see some of the technological advances that hope to streamline and improve the claims process.
Join us as Tim Christ helps us to understand what advancements are here and what are next when it comes to handling claims today and into the future.
Top Ten Flood Topics
This fast-paced one-hour class brings up some of the most common issues relating to flood insurance. Topics will include, private flood insurance, maximum limits, E&O issues, the 30-day wait, the requirement to use the diligent effort form, HFIAA fees, other structures, homeowners associations, and more.
Duty to Defend vs. Duty to Indemnify
In many insurance policies, the contract tells us that the insurer has the "right and duty to defend..." but what does that really mean? Is that the same thing as the duty to indemnify? Which is more important or valuable, if either is? Join us as Joe Junfola helps us to understand how the duty to indemnify works with the duty to defend. He'll deal with issues of long-term exposures and continuous damage and he'll explain the "four corners" test.