Insurance Training Course Catalog
Property Insurance Concepts and Terms Part 1
Insurance has a language all its own. Many of us simply smile and nod when we don’t understand a term. Some are ambitious enough to try and remember the terms they didn’t know and look them up later. A few brave souls will actually ask what an unfamiliar term means. We intend to begin to de-mystify the insurance language in this session.
Join us as Academy Director, Patrick Wraight brings this first of a two-part introduction to these critical insurance concepts and terms.
Mobile Homes, Farms, and Floods. Insuring Higher Risk Property
Some property is just more difficult to insure than others. Mobile homes are a great example. They aren't just like a "stick-built" house. On top of that, some causes of loss aren't as easy to insure, or at least that's what some believe. Check out this session to learn more about flood, farms, and mobile homes.
Navigating the Waters of Inland Marine Insurance
Just when you think you're starting to get the language, we're going to introduce the inland marine policy to you. It has nothing to do with navigating the Mississippi river or the Erie Canal. It turns out that it's another property policy, but it's a really interesting kind of policy. Here's a fun fact, inland marine policies don't always tell you that they're inland marine policies, but they do cover property differently than other policies.
Join us as Academy Director, Patrick Wraight brings you this introduction to the versatile world of inland marine insurance. No life vest required.
Protecting Your Buildings, Your Stuff, and Your Money
Insurance is a world all of its own and when you're new to the business, it takes a while to get used to the words we use, the letter and number combinations that we come up with (and people seem to just understand), and all the other stuff that doesn't make much sense.
Join us as we begin a new series of classes designed to help the new insurance person navigate this new world with confidence. In no time, you'll know the differences between a building and personal property coverage form and a builders' risk coverage form. You'll even understand the differences between an open perils policy and a named perils policy and you'll understand why the phrase "all-risks" makes Patrick twitch.
Join us as Academy Director, Patrick Wraight, dives into the world of commercial property policies.
HO and DP. Two Ways to Handle a Dwelling
Insurance is a world all of its own and when you're new to the business, it takes a while to get used to the words we use, the letter and number combinations that we come up with (and people seem to just understand), and all the other stuff that doesn't make much sense.
Join us as we begin a new series of classes designed to help the new insurance person navigate this new world with confidence. In no time, you'll know your DP from your HO. You might even understand why some of the people in the office keep talking about a fire policy. Academy Director, Patrick Wraight will walk us through these personal lines policies so that you can help your clients better insure their risks.
How An Adjuster Reads An Insurance Policy
For the first time in Academy of Insurance history, participants will choose a real-world claim scenario, and Chantal Roberts will walk through the ISO Homeowner policy, step-by-step, demonstrating how an adjuster reviews the policy to make a coverage decision. Join us for this special live session. Chantal will open the adjuster tool bag and show us how it works.
Predicting 2025: Company Appetites, Underwriting, Competition, and Capacity
Are you struggling with managing your carrier relationships? Are you frustrated by their seemingly random actions? Are you frustrated with their inconsistency? Do you ever wonder how, if their predictive modeling is so good that now they must raise rates by 30% because they’re surprised by global warming?
Staying ahead of your carriers’ actions is difficult even in good times, much less in the hardest of hard markets. In this presentation, Chris will discuss five keys to understanding and getting ahead of your carriers’ actions. Your carrier relations don’t need to be shrouded in mystery. Join Chris to learn how to take proactive control of your carrier relations.
BAP Coverage Symbols: There's Gold in Them There Numbers
We bet you can guess the focus of this session. No, it’s about BAP coverage symbols. Although the Coverage Symbols are a “basic” of business auto coverage, there is actually a lot of key information in the symbols. Beyond the gold in the Coverage Symbols, the last part of this session focuses on coverage for Trailers, a very common coverage question.
Join us as Chris Boggs helps make Coverage Symbols crystal clear and you'll find the gold in this session.
The Easy Questions No One Asks (Including YOU), And What Happens When You Don't
In this session Chris Boggs talks about key underwriting questions no one asks (or thinks to ask) and what happens when you don’t. For instance, “Who owns the building?” You might think that's an easy one. We think it's obvious that the insured owns the building, but what happens at claim time when it is finally discovered that the insured doesn't own the building, and another corporation owns the building? How's that claim going to be paid? This is the sort of question that we're dealing with in this session.
Evolution of Policy Language that Can Get You Sued
One agent's renewal business is another agent's new business. this is one of the ideas that Fred Fisher will bring out in this class. Fred will bring out the nuance in insurance policy language that is giving insureds trouble when there is a claim, and he will help us to understand how and why to review clients' policies as if they are new business so that we can know how the policy reads, and how that will impact the client.