Insurance Training Course Catalog
Rating AI Tools: Balancing Functionality and Security
Our Tech Expert, Tom Wetzel, is bringing us this new session. It's all about looking at the online tools that we're all using and determining which ones might make us more vulnerable to cyberattacks.
E&O and Hard Markets: How Trying to Keep a Client Might Cause Trouble
What you don't know can hurt you, especially in a hard market where agents must find new carriers to replace coverage for many clients. Chris Burand is bringing this new session all about the E&O exposures that are created because an agent has to find a new insurance carrier to write policies due to hard market conditions.
Commercial Property: Five Bombs and How to Defuse Them
Commercial Property policies have gaps in coverage that are writting into them intentionally. Sometimes those gaps in coverage are for exclusions that cannot be insured. Sometimes, those gaps in coverage are created because the way the policy is written and rated, it doesn't anticipate certain losses and often those losses are likely to occur in connection with a property loss.
What's an insured to do about this? That's why Kevin Amrhein is with us. He's going to show us five places where there is a potential coverage issue and how we might help insureds to fix those issues.
PFAS: An Evolving Risk That Won't Go Away
In this refresh, Dr. Brenda Wells is going to help us to understand the risk of PFAS, what they are, and why we should care. Join us so that you're aware of what's going on and how this exposure might affect you and your clients.
Guns, Violence, and Insurance
People buy insurance to cover the "normal" risks of their lives and businesses. What happens when an event that's so out of normal happens? Is there insurance to cover that event? In this session, Joe Harrington dives into the world of gun violence from an insurance perspective. You won't want to miss this very timely session.
Triggering Change: The Rise of Parametric Insurance
Parametric insurance doesn't work like other insurance policies. It pays based on a triggering event, based on the specifics of the policy. Join us as Dr. Brenda Wells and her RMI team at ECU bring us this timely class all about parametric insurance.
A Two-Edged Sword: How Agencies Must Navigate AI and Cybercrime in 2025
AI is being used by cybercriminals to make their work of stealing from people more efficient. The AI generates text messages and emails. It initiates chats and phone calls. Agencies are potential targets of these same criminals. Join us as our resident expert, Tom Wetzel brings his take on how to safeguard yourself, your business, and your clients from AI generated cybercrime.
Avian Flu Challenges: Why It Matters to More Than Just the Farmer
Did you see the price of eggs for the first quarter of 2025? It's been crazy. The question that people keep asking is why? Why are the eggs so expensive? Why are authorities reacting so quickly and severely to this virus? Join us as Casey Roberts helps us to understand the issues surrounding Bird Flu and their insurance implications.
How People Buy Insurance. An Introduction to Insurance Distribution
In this tenth installment of our New To Insurance series, Academy Director, Patrick Wraight will discuss how people buy insurance, including why most people (including insurance people) need an agent, what the difference between an agent and a broker is, and the rise of app-based agencies. Join us live as we deal with how people buy insurance and how it's changed over the years.
Hard Markets, Wildfires, and More. A Panel Conversation
A hard market cycle unlike anything we have seen in recent history, the 2024 hurricane season, and 2025 CA wildfires are all making their impacts on the insurance market in the US. We have brought together two insurance thought leaders in Chris Burand and Fred Fisher to discuss these topics and more in a fast-paced hour including their thoughts on these topics and more. You won’t want to miss this conversation.