Every third week of June is designated as Lightning Awareness Week. This week is used to bring awareness to the dangers of nature's fireworks.

Every third week of June is designated as Lightning Awareness Week. This week is used to bring awareness to the dangers of nature's fireworks.

Insurance claims is a dynamic and fast-paced field that requires professionals to possess a wide range of skills and competencies. While academic institutions provide a foundation of knowledge, there are certain skill gaps that schools have failed to adequately address, hindering the readiness of new entrants.

At Mid-America Catastrophe Services, we are privileged to work with some of America's best field and desk claims adjusters. Our top performers work as much as they want and earn six figures annually. More importantly, they are good people. They are empathetic, energetic, and efficient.

As most insurance professionals and litigators know, the hot new trend for plaintiffs' attorneys is to turn whiplash cases with significant insurance limits into mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) cases. Such cases raise the stakes for insurers and litigators because they are expensive to defend and create more exposure for insureds and their indemnitors.

Tornadoes are some of the most extreme weather events on Earth, and just like snowflakes, no two tornadoes are the same.

Maybe it's just me, but I have a growing distaste for some of the posts I am seeing these days on LinkedIn. And it's probably not the personal opinion 'Facebook-style' posts you are thinking about.

Your experiences in virtual reality could soon get much more lifelike. Palmer Luckey, sometimes credited with creating modern virtual reality, claims to have built a VR headset that will kill the user if they die in the game they're playing.

Great-power rivalry between the United States, China, and Russia was a hot topic at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX, from October 2-4.

Recently, I hosted a training for inside adjusters, and the group consisted of around 20 seasoned claims professionals with an average tenure exceeding seven years. Most of these inside adjusters had spent at least a couple of years in the field, as well.

The CPCU Society has a goal of being an inclusive global community that welcomes and empowers all individuals, ideas and voices. One way to reach this goal includes expanding its global community through outreach and initiatives designed to retain and grow membership around the world.

Baby boomers thought that my generation, "Gen X," would destroy the Earth and make it uninhabitable. I hear people in Generation X constantly blaming everything on the millennial generation. And the millennials are starting to complain about the next generation, "Gen Z."

In December of 2019, The Institutes, a nonprofit insurance industry thought leadership and education organization, closed on its acquisition of Risk & Insurance.

Have you heard that old saying, 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder'? It definitely makes my heart go pitter-patter. I absolutely love supporting leaders and solving the nuisances in the absence and disability management space. Conversely, ask any people leader, and I'm sure that you will get a mixed bag of emotions because this is a challenging area to navigate.

When the writer of Ecclesiastes reminded us long ago that "there is nothing new under the sun," he could have foreseen today's big data and the widespread use of various statistical programs in the valuation of totaled vehicles by third-party vendors who sell their services to insurance companies.