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• E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    April 29, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109587 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving professional liability and executive liability coverages. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations. 

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• E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    April 29, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #110780 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to help insurance producers prevent claims based on alleged errors or omissions in performance of professional duties in selling and servicing personal auto and personal umbrella insurance. In this course:

  • Agent, broker, and producer interchangeable terms
  • Prevent is used in the risk management sense - i.e., reducing the frequency or likelihood of claims

  Focal point of the course: the agent who fully understands and skillfully customizes coverage not only demonstrates his or her value to clients but also avoids errors and omissions (E&O) charges that can result from a failure to meet clients’ needs.

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• E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    April 29, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #110781 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to help insurance producers prevent claims based on alleged errors or omissions in performance of professional duties in selling and servicing personal auto and personal umbrella insurance. In this course:

  • Agent, broker, and producer interchangeable terms
  • Prevent is used in the risk management sense - i.e., reducing the frequency or likelihood of claims

  Focal point of the course: the agent who fully understands and skillfully customizes coverage not only demonstrates his or her value to clients but also avoids errors and omissions (E&O) charges that can result from a failure to meet clients’ needs.

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• E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    April 29, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109588 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving professional liability and executive liability coverages. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations. 

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• Adding Value In Personal Lines (ABEN)

  • When
    April 30, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Adding Value In Personal Lines (ABEN)

  Course #111211 | 3 P&C

  Our personal lines clients depend upon us to place proper coverages as a major part of their risk management strategy. The property and liability coverages we place on their behalf may ultimately stand between them and bankruptcy in the event of a large loss. This presentation will address the exposures our personal lines clients have which are not well-handled by their unendorsed ISO Homeowners and Personal Auto Policies. A review of endorsements available in these programs will remind the participant that, as all clients are unique, it is routinely necessary to discuss the need for and availability of these very important coverage enhancements. The presentation will conclude with a review of the Personal Umbrella/Excess Liability coverage needs of the personal lines client and discussion of coverages currently available to meet those needs.
  

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• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    May 01, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

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• Adding Value In Personal Lines (ABEN)

  • When
    May 01, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Adding Value In Personal Lines (ABEN)

  Course #111211 | 3 P&C

  Our personal lines clients depend upon us to place proper coverages as a major part of their risk management strategy. The property and liability coverages we place on their behalf may ultimately stand between them and bankruptcy in the event of a large loss. This presentation will address the exposures our personal lines clients have which are not well-handled by their unendorsed ISO Homeowners and Personal Auto Policies. A review of endorsements available in these programs will remind the participant that, as all clients are unique, it is routinely necessary to discuss the need for and availability of these very important coverage enhancements. The presentation will conclude with a review of the Personal Umbrella/Excess Liability coverage needs of the personal lines client and discussion of coverages currently available to meet those needs.
  

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• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    May 02, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

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• E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    May 02, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109585 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.

  On completion of this course, the student should be able to recognize and prevent many of the problems associated with selling and servicing the following:

  • Commercial property insurance
  • Equipment breakdown insurance
  • Business interruption and extra expense insurance
  • Commercial inland marine insurance

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• E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    May 02, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109622 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.
  

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• E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    May 02, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109623 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.
  

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• E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    May 02, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109586 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.

  On completion of this course, the student should be able to recognize and prevent many of the problems associated with selling and servicing the following:

  • Commercial property insurance
  • Equipment breakdown insurance
  • Business interruption and extra expense insurance
  • Commercial inland marine insurance

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• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    May 02, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

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• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    May 03, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

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• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    May 03, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

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• E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    May 03, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109587 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving professional liability and executive liability coverages. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations. 

  Register Here

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• E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    May 03, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #110780 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to help insurance producers prevent claims based on alleged errors or omissions in performance of professional duties in selling and servicing personal auto and personal umbrella insurance. In this course:

  • Agent, broker, and producer interchangeable terms
  • Prevent is used in the risk management sense - i.e., reducing the frequency or likelihood of claims

  Focal point of the course: the agent who fully understands and skillfully customizes coverage not only demonstrates his or her value to clients but also avoids errors and omissions (E&O) charges that can result from a failure to meet clients’ needs.

  Register Here

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• E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    May 03, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #110781 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to help insurance producers prevent claims based on alleged errors or omissions in performance of professional duties in selling and servicing personal auto and personal umbrella insurance. In this course:

  • Agent, broker, and producer interchangeable terms
  • Prevent is used in the risk management sense - i.e., reducing the frequency or likelihood of claims

  Focal point of the course: the agent who fully understands and skillfully customizes coverage not only demonstrates his or her value to clients but also avoids errors and omissions (E&O) charges that can result from a failure to meet clients’ needs.

  Register Here

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• E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    May 03, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109588 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving professional liability and executive liability coverages. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations. 

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• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    May 06, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

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• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    May 06, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

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• E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance- Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    May 07, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #106648 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Our world is changing and we as agents & brokers need to help our clients understand the need to protect their businesses as technology impacts exposures in order to do this, we need to understand the exposure and coverage.

  A business used to feel fully protected when they purchased Property, General Liability, Auto and Workers Compensation.  A variety of emerging issues now require we pay special attention to exposures not adequately covered by the Business Owners or Package Policies.

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• E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance- Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    May 07, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #106649 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Our world is changing and we as agents & brokers need to help our clients understand the need to protect their businesses as technology impacts exposures in order to do this, we need to understand the exposure and coverage.

  A business used to feel fully protected when they purchased Property, General Liability, Auto and Workers Compensation.  A variety of emerging issues now require we pay special attention to exposures not adequately covered by the Business Owners or Package Policies.

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• 5 Contractor Coverage Concepts Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  • When
    May 08, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  5 Contractor Coverage Concepts Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  Course #106851 | 2 P&C

  Contractor risks are unique. Agents must understand these unique risks, exposures, and coverages to properly manage their contractor clients. This seminar focuses on five of the most common contractor risk exposures:

  • Contractual Risk Transfer 
  • Properly Extending Insured Status
  • Business Auto Issues
  • Misuse of the Absolute Pollution Exclusion 
  • Professional and Pollution Exposures Faced by Contractors

  A lot of material is covered in this fast-moving, two-hour session. Agents will be better prepared to analyze the risks presented by their contractor clients and know how to properly respond to their coverage needs and claims questions.

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• 9 Rules for Reading an Insurance Policy Based on the Law of Insurance Contracts (ABEN)

  • When
    May 08, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  9 Rules for Reading an Insurance Policy Based on the Law of Insurance Contracts (ABEN)

  Course #106089 | 2 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristic is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. 

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• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    May 08, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

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• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    May 08, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

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• 3 Keys to Getting the Named Insured Correct (ABEN)

  • When
    May 08, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  3 Keys to Getting the Named Insured Correct (ABEN)

  Course #106082 | 2 P&C

  Before any claim is paid, status as an insured must exist. Is the person or entity suffering or causing loss, injury or damage an insured? If the answer is no, there is no need to go any further. If insured status does not exist, all your hard work is wasted; no one will ever find out how good you are at designing coverage because you messed up at the beginning.
  

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• 4 Key Personal & Commercial Lines Exposures Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  • When
    May 08, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  4 Key Personal & Commercial Lines Exposures Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  Course #106083 | 2 P&C

  We cover a lot of ground in this 2 hour session – five topics to be exact - but when we are through, you will be better able to explain some of the new exposures, policy issues, and available options. You will also be more at ease with these “disruptors."

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• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    May 08, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

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• E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    May 09, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #111008 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  The standard Homeowners policy provides broad coverage designed to meet the needs of the average American homebuyer.  This “average” home owner may be single or married, with or without children, living in a free-standing single-family home. This typical home owner maintains a modest lifestyle, owns no unusual property, has no unusual hobbies or activities and is not the “exciting” cast of characters you would see in a reality TV show or sitcom.

  To keep premiums reasonable—and for other reasons, these standard policies also exclude or limit coverage for insurable exposures that a minority of families face. These excluded exposures create coverage gaps that can often be filled for an additional premium, by modifying the standard policy’s limits or other provisions, adding an appropriate endorsement, or purchasing an additional policy.

  This course is designed to help insurance practitioners identify and overcome many of the coverage gaps, exclusions, limitations, and uninsured exposures their Homeowners clients face. The approach varies by topic, but the general goal is first to discuss circumstances that might create an atypical exposure or a need for additional insurance beyond that provided by a standard policy, and then to explain measures that can be used to eliminate this coverage gap by insuring or otherwise managing the exposure.  
  

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• E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    May 09, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #111009 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  The standard Homeowners policy provides broad coverage designed to meet the needs of the average American homebuyer.  This “average” home owner may be single or married, with or without children, living in a free-standing single-family home. This typical home owner maintains a modest lifestyle, owns no unusual property, has no unusual hobbies or activities and is not the “exciting” cast of characters you would see in a reality TV show or sitcom.

  To keep premiums reasonable—and for other reasons, these standard policies also exclude or limit coverage for insurable exposures that a minority of families face. These excluded exposures create coverage gaps that can often be filled for an additional premium, by modifying the standard policy’s limits or other provisions, adding an appropriate endorsement, or purchasing an additional policy.

  This course is designed to help insurance practitioners identify and overcome many of the coverage gaps, exclusions, limitations, and uninsured exposures their Homeowners clients face. The approach varies by topic, but the general goal is first to discuss circumstances that might create an atypical exposure or a need for additional insurance beyond that provided by a standard policy, and then to explain measures that can be used to eliminate this coverage gap by insuring or otherwise managing the exposure.  
  

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• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    May 10, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

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• The "Lucky" Thirteen Most Important Issues in Homeowners Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    May 10, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The "Lucky" Thirteen Most Important Issues in Homeowners Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111787 | 3 P&C

  This broad-ranging three hour continuing education seminar is designed to be a review of the most important coverage issues in personal lines insurance for producers not well-versed in the intricacies which may be encountered. For those producers that are familiar with personal lines issues, the course functions as a reminder of some significant issues to address with insureds and an update on current developments in the field.  

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• E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  • When
    May 10, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  Course #108874 | 1 P&C

  This course is designed to educate insurance industry professionals on the Errors and Omissions exposures they face in various areas of public-facing marketing. This course will cover Standard of Care laws in all states and how special relationships are affected and duties heightened when agencies use certain language in their written materials.   

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• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    May 13, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

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• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    May 13, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

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• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    May 13, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

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• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    May 13, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

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• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    May 13, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

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• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    May 13, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

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• E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    May 14, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #110096 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to guide experienced professionals' step by step through the process of reading policy language, applying a basic coverage analysis to look for possible gaps in coverage, and understanding advanced coverage issues. It will explain what to look for in terms of wording, punctuation, and formatting, including negative and positive implications of specific wording. In addition, the course will address E&O loss control issues and help the agency look at ways to obtain and retain business. 

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• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    May 14, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

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• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    May 14, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

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• E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    May 14, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #110097 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to guide experienced professionals' step by step through the process of reading policy language, applying a basic coverage analysis to look for possible gaps in coverage, and understanding advanced coverage issues. It will explain what to look for in terms of wording, punctuation, and formatting, including negative and positive implications of specific wording. In addition, the course will address E&O loss control issues and help the agency look at ways to obtain and retain business. 

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• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    May 14, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

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• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    May 15, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

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• The Many Faces of Insurance Fraud (ABEN)

  • When
    May 15, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Many Faces of Insurance Fraud (ABEN)

  Course #111485 | 2 Ethics

  This course will guide you through the most common forms of insurance fraud, revealing the psychology and motivations of swindlers. Through real-life case studies and hands-on exercies, you'll learn practical strategies for indentifying red flags and responding effectively to safeguard your organization. 

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• Adding Value In Personal Lines (ABEN)

  • When
    May 16, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Adding Value In Personal Lines (ABEN)

  Course #111211 | 3 P&C

  Our personal lines clients depend upon us to place proper coverages as a major part of their risk management strategy. The property and liability coverages we place on their behalf may ultimately stand between them and bankruptcy in the event of a large loss. This presentation will address the exposures our personal lines clients have which are not well-handled by their unendorsed ISO Homeowners and Personal Auto Policies. A review of endorsements available in these programs will remind the participant that, as all clients are unique, it is routinely necessary to discuss the need for and availability of these very important coverage enhancements. The presentation will conclude with a review of the Personal Umbrella/Excess Liability coverage needs of the personal lines client and discussion of coverages currently available to meet those needs.
  

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• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    May 16, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

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• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    May 17, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

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• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    May 17, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

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• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    May 20, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

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• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    May 20, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

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• E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    May 20, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109622 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.
  

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• E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    May 20, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109585 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.

  On completion of this course, the student should be able to recognize and prevent many of the problems associated with selling and servicing the following:

  • Commercial property insurance
  • Equipment breakdown insurance
  • Business interruption and extra expense insurance
  • Commercial inland marine insurance

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• E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    May 20, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109586 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.

  On completion of this course, the student should be able to recognize and prevent many of the problems associated with selling and servicing the following:

  • Commercial property insurance
  • Equipment breakdown insurance
  • Business interruption and extra expense insurance
  • Commercial inland marine insurance

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• E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    May 20, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109623 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.
  

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• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    May 21, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

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• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    May 21, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

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• E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  • When
    May 22, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  Course #108874 | 1 P&C

  This course is designed to educate insurance industry professionals on the Errors and Omissions exposures they face in various areas of public-facing marketing. This course will cover Standard of Care laws in all states and how special relationships are affected and duties heightened when agencies use certain language in their written materials.   

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• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    May 22, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

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• The "Lucky" Thirteen Most Important Issues in Homeowners Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    May 22, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The "Lucky" Thirteen Most Important Issues in Homeowners Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111787 | 3 P&C

  This broad-ranging three hour continuing education seminar is designed to be a review of the most important coverage issues in personal lines insurance for producers not well-versed in the intricacies which may be encountered. For those producers that are familiar with personal lines issues, the course functions as a reminder of some significant issues to address with insureds and an update on current developments in the field.  

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• 4 Key Personal & Commercial Lines Exposures Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  • When
    May 23, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  4 Key Personal & Commercial Lines Exposures Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  Course #106083 | 2 P&C

  We cover a lot of ground in this 2 hour session – five topics to be exact - but when we are through, you will be better able to explain some of the new exposures, policy issues, and available options. You will also be more at ease with these “disruptors."

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• 5 Contractor Coverage Concepts Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  • When
    May 23, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  5 Contractor Coverage Concepts Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  Course #106851 | 2 P&C

  Contractor risks are unique. Agents must understand these unique risks, exposures, and coverages to properly manage their contractor clients. This seminar focuses on five of the most common contractor risk exposures:

  • Contractual Risk Transfer 
  • Properly Extending Insured Status
  • Business Auto Issues
  • Misuse of the Absolute Pollution Exclusion 
  • Professional and Pollution Exposures Faced by Contractors

  A lot of material is covered in this fast-moving, two-hour session. Agents will be better prepared to analyze the risks presented by their contractor clients and know how to properly respond to their coverage needs and claims questions.

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• 9 Rules for Reading an Insurance Policy Based on the Law of Insurance Contracts (ABEN)

  • When
    May 23, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  9 Rules for Reading an Insurance Policy Based on the Law of Insurance Contracts (ABEN)

  Course #106089 | 2 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristic is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. 

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• E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    May 23, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109587 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving professional liability and executive liability coverages. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations. 

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• E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    May 23, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #110780 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to help insurance producers prevent claims based on alleged errors or omissions in performance of professional duties in selling and servicing personal auto and personal umbrella insurance. In this course:

  • Agent, broker, and producer interchangeable terms
  • Prevent is used in the risk management sense - i.e., reducing the frequency or likelihood of claims

  Focal point of the course: the agent who fully understands and skillfully customizes coverage not only demonstrates his or her value to clients but also avoids errors and omissions (E&O) charges that can result from a failure to meet clients’ needs.

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• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    May 23, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

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• 3 Keys to Getting the Named Insured Correct (ABEN)

  • When
    May 23, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  3 Keys to Getting the Named Insured Correct (ABEN)

  Course #106082 | 2 P&C

  Before any claim is paid, status as an insured must exist. Is the person or entity suffering or causing loss, injury or damage an insured? If the answer is no, there is no need to go any further. If insured status does not exist, all your hard work is wasted; no one will ever find out how good you are at designing coverage because you messed up at the beginning.
  

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• E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    May 23, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109588 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving professional liability and executive liability coverages. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations. 

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• E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    May 23, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #110781 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to help insurance producers prevent claims based on alleged errors or omissions in performance of professional duties in selling and servicing personal auto and personal umbrella insurance. In this course:

  • Agent, broker, and producer interchangeable terms
  • Prevent is used in the risk management sense - i.e., reducing the frequency or likelihood of claims

  Focal point of the course: the agent who fully understands and skillfully customizes coverage not only demonstrates his or her value to clients but also avoids errors and omissions (E&O) charges that can result from a failure to meet clients’ needs.

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• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    May 24, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

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• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    May 24, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

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• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    May 24, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

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• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    May 24, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

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• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    May 24, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

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• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    May 24, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

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• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    May 28, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

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• E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    May 28, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #111008 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  The standard Homeowners policy provides broad coverage designed to meet the needs of the average American homebuyer.  This “average” home owner may be single or married, with or without children, living in a free-standing single-family home. This typical home owner maintains a modest lifestyle, owns no unusual property, has no unusual hobbies or activities and is not the “exciting” cast of characters you would see in a reality TV show or sitcom.

  To keep premiums reasonable—and for other reasons, these standard policies also exclude or limit coverage for insurable exposures that a minority of families face. These excluded exposures create coverage gaps that can often be filled for an additional premium, by modifying the standard policy’s limits or other provisions, adding an appropriate endorsement, or purchasing an additional policy.

  This course is designed to help insurance practitioners identify and overcome many of the coverage gaps, exclusions, limitations, and uninsured exposures their Homeowners clients face. The approach varies by topic, but the general goal is first to discuss circumstances that might create an atypical exposure or a need for additional insurance beyond that provided by a standard policy, and then to explain measures that can be used to eliminate this coverage gap by insuring or otherwise managing the exposure.  
  

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• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    May 28, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

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• E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    May 28, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #111009 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  The standard Homeowners policy provides broad coverage designed to meet the needs of the average American homebuyer.  This “average” home owner may be single or married, with or without children, living in a free-standing single-family home. This typical home owner maintains a modest lifestyle, owns no unusual property, has no unusual hobbies or activities and is not the “exciting” cast of characters you would see in a reality TV show or sitcom.

  To keep premiums reasonable—and for other reasons, these standard policies also exclude or limit coverage for insurable exposures that a minority of families face. These excluded exposures create coverage gaps that can often be filled for an additional premium, by modifying the standard policy’s limits or other provisions, adding an appropriate endorsement, or purchasing an additional policy.

  This course is designed to help insurance practitioners identify and overcome many of the coverage gaps, exclusions, limitations, and uninsured exposures their Homeowners clients face. The approach varies by topic, but the general goal is first to discuss circumstances that might create an atypical exposure or a need for additional insurance beyond that provided by a standard policy, and then to explain measures that can be used to eliminate this coverage gap by insuring or otherwise managing the exposure.  
  

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• E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance- Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    May 29, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #106648 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Our world is changing and we as agents & brokers need to help our clients understand the need to protect their businesses as technology impacts exposures in order to do this, we need to understand the exposure and coverage.

  A business used to feel fully protected when they purchased Property, General Liability, Auto and Workers Compensation.  A variety of emerging issues now require we pay special attention to exposures not adequately covered by the Business Owners or Package Policies.

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• E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance- Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    May 29, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #106649 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Our world is changing and we as agents & brokers need to help our clients understand the need to protect their businesses as technology impacts exposures in order to do this, we need to understand the exposure and coverage.

  A business used to feel fully protected when they purchased Property, General Liability, Auto and Workers Compensation.  A variety of emerging issues now require we pay special attention to exposures not adequately covered by the Business Owners or Package Policies.

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• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    May 30, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

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• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    May 30, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

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• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    May 30, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

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• E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    May 30, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #110096 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to guide experienced professionals' step by step through the process of reading policy language, applying a basic coverage analysis to look for possible gaps in coverage, and understanding advanced coverage issues. It will explain what to look for in terms of wording, punctuation, and formatting, including negative and positive implications of specific wording. In addition, the course will address E&O loss control issues and help the agency look at ways to obtain and retain business. 

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• E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    May 30, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #110097 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to guide experienced professionals' step by step through the process of reading policy language, applying a basic coverage analysis to look for possible gaps in coverage, and understanding advanced coverage issues. It will explain what to look for in terms of wording, punctuation, and formatting, including negative and positive implications of specific wording. In addition, the course will address E&O loss control issues and help the agency look at ways to obtain and retain business. 

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• The Many Faces of Insurance Fraud (ABEN)

  • When
    May 31, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Many Faces of Insurance Fraud (ABEN)

  Course #111485 | 2 Ethics

  This course will guide you through the most common forms of insurance fraud, revealing the psychology and motivations of swindlers. Through real-life case studies and hands-on exercies, you'll learn practical strategies for indentifying red flags and responding effectively to safeguard your organization. 

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• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    May 31, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

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• E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    June 03, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #111008 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  The standard Homeowners policy provides broad coverage designed to meet the needs of the average American homebuyer.  This “average” home owner may be single or married, with or without children, living in a free-standing single-family home. This typical home owner maintains a modest lifestyle, owns no unusual property, has no unusual hobbies or activities and is not the “exciting” cast of characters you would see in a reality TV show or sitcom.

  To keep premiums reasonable—and for other reasons, these standard policies also exclude or limit coverage for insurable exposures that a minority of families face. These excluded exposures create coverage gaps that can often be filled for an additional premium, by modifying the standard policy’s limits or other provisions, adding an appropriate endorsement, or purchasing an additional policy.

  This course is designed to help insurance practitioners identify and overcome many of the coverage gaps, exclusions, limitations, and uninsured exposures their Homeowners clients face. The approach varies by topic, but the general goal is first to discuss circumstances that might create an atypical exposure or a need for additional insurance beyond that provided by a standard policy, and then to explain measures that can be used to eliminate this coverage gap by insuring or otherwise managing the exposure.  
  

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• E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    June 03, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #111009 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  The standard Homeowners policy provides broad coverage designed to meet the needs of the average American homebuyer.  This “average” home owner may be single or married, with or without children, living in a free-standing single-family home. This typical home owner maintains a modest lifestyle, owns no unusual property, has no unusual hobbies or activities and is not the “exciting” cast of characters you would see in a reality TV show or sitcom.

  To keep premiums reasonable—and for other reasons, these standard policies also exclude or limit coverage for insurable exposures that a minority of families face. These excluded exposures create coverage gaps that can often be filled for an additional premium, by modifying the standard policy’s limits or other provisions, adding an appropriate endorsement, or purchasing an additional policy.

  This course is designed to help insurance practitioners identify and overcome many of the coverage gaps, exclusions, limitations, and uninsured exposures their Homeowners clients face. The approach varies by topic, but the general goal is first to discuss circumstances that might create an atypical exposure or a need for additional insurance beyond that provided by a standard policy, and then to explain measures that can be used to eliminate this coverage gap by insuring or otherwise managing the exposure.  
  

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• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    June 04, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

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• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    June 04, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

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• 3 Keys to Getting the Named Insured Correct (ABEN)

  • When
    June 05, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  3 Keys to Getting the Named Insured Correct (ABEN)

  Course #106082 | 2 P&C

  Before any claim is paid, status as an insured must exist. Is the person or entity suffering or causing loss, injury or damage an insured? If the answer is no, there is no need to go any further. If insured status does not exist, all your hard work is wasted; no one will ever find out how good you are at designing coverage because you messed up at the beginning.
  

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• 4 Key Personal & Commercial Lines Exposures Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  • When
    June 05, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  4 Key Personal & Commercial Lines Exposures Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  Course #106083 | 2 P&C

  We cover a lot of ground in this 2 hour session – five topics to be exact - but when we are through, you will be better able to explain some of the new exposures, policy issues, and available options. You will also be more at ease with these “disruptors."

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• 5 Contractor Coverage Concepts Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  • When
    June 05, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  5 Contractor Coverage Concepts Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  Course #106851 | 2 P&C

  Contractor risks are unique. Agents must understand these unique risks, exposures, and coverages to properly manage their contractor clients. This seminar focuses on five of the most common contractor risk exposures:

  • Contractual Risk Transfer 
  • Properly Extending Insured Status
  • Business Auto Issues
  • Misuse of the Absolute Pollution Exclusion 
  • Professional and Pollution Exposures Faced by Contractors

  A lot of material is covered in this fast-moving, two-hour session. Agents will be better prepared to analyze the risks presented by their contractor clients and know how to properly respond to their coverage needs and claims questions.

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• E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    June 05, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #110096 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to guide experienced professionals' step by step through the process of reading policy language, applying a basic coverage analysis to look for possible gaps in coverage, and understanding advanced coverage issues. It will explain what to look for in terms of wording, punctuation, and formatting, including negative and positive implications of specific wording. In addition, the course will address E&O loss control issues and help the agency look at ways to obtain and retain business. 

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• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    June 05, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

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• 9 Rules for Reading an Insurance Policy Based on the Law of Insurance Contracts (ABEN)

  • When
    June 05, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  9 Rules for Reading an Insurance Policy Based on the Law of Insurance Contracts (ABEN)

  Course #106089 | 2 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristic is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. 

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• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    June 05, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

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• E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    June 05, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #110097 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to guide experienced professionals' step by step through the process of reading policy language, applying a basic coverage analysis to look for possible gaps in coverage, and understanding advanced coverage issues. It will explain what to look for in terms of wording, punctuation, and formatting, including negative and positive implications of specific wording. In addition, the course will address E&O loss control issues and help the agency look at ways to obtain and retain business. 

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• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    June 05, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

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• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    June 05, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

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• The "Lucky" Thirteen Most Important Issues in Homeowners Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    June 06, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The "Lucky" Thirteen Most Important Issues in Homeowners Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111787 | 3 P&C

  This broad-ranging three hour continuing education seminar is designed to be a review of the most important coverage issues in personal lines insurance for producers not well-versed in the intricacies which may be encountered. For those producers that are familiar with personal lines issues, the course functions as a reminder of some significant issues to address with insureds and an update on current developments in the field.  

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• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    June 06, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

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• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    June 06, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

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• The Many Faces of Insurance Fraud (ABEN)

  • When
    June 06, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Many Faces of Insurance Fraud (ABEN)

  Course #111485 | 2 Ethics

  This course will guide you through the most common forms of insurance fraud, revealing the psychology and motivations of swindlers. Through real-life case studies and hands-on exercies, you'll learn practical strategies for indentifying red flags and responding effectively to safeguard your organization. 

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• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    June 07, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

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• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    June 07, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

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• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    June 07, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

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• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    June 07, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

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• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    June 07, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

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• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    June 07, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

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• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    June 07, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

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• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    June 07, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

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• E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    June 10, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109622 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.
  

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• E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    June 10, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109585 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.

  On completion of this course, the student should be able to recognize and prevent many of the problems associated with selling and servicing the following:

  • Commercial property insurance
  • Equipment breakdown insurance
  • Business interruption and extra expense insurance
  • Commercial inland marine insurance

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• E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    June 10, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109586 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.

  On completion of this course, the student should be able to recognize and prevent many of the problems associated with selling and servicing the following:

  • Commercial property insurance
  • Equipment breakdown insurance
  • Business interruption and extra expense insurance
  • Commercial inland marine insurance

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• E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    June 10, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109623 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.
  

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• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    June 11, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

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• Adding Value In Personal Lines (ABEN)

  • When
    June 11, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Adding Value In Personal Lines (ABEN)

  Course #111211 | 3 P&C

  Our personal lines clients depend upon us to place proper coverages as a major part of their risk management strategy. The property and liability coverages we place on their behalf may ultimately stand between them and bankruptcy in the event of a large loss. This presentation will address the exposures our personal lines clients have which are not well-handled by their unendorsed ISO Homeowners and Personal Auto Policies. A review of endorsements available in these programs will remind the participant that, as all clients are unique, it is routinely necessary to discuss the need for and availability of these very important coverage enhancements. The presentation will conclude with a review of the Personal Umbrella/Excess Liability coverage needs of the personal lines client and discussion of coverages currently available to meet those needs.
  

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• E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    June 12, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109587 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving professional liability and executive liability coverages. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations. 

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• E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    June 12, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #110780 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to help insurance producers prevent claims based on alleged errors or omissions in performance of professional duties in selling and servicing personal auto and personal umbrella insurance. In this course:

  • Agent, broker, and producer interchangeable terms
  • Prevent is used in the risk management sense - i.e., reducing the frequency or likelihood of claims

  Focal point of the course: the agent who fully understands and skillfully customizes coverage not only demonstrates his or her value to clients but also avoids errors and omissions (E&O) charges that can result from a failure to meet clients’ needs.

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• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    June 12, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

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• E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    June 12, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #110781 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to help insurance producers prevent claims based on alleged errors or omissions in performance of professional duties in selling and servicing personal auto and personal umbrella insurance. In this course:

  • Agent, broker, and producer interchangeable terms
  • Prevent is used in the risk management sense - i.e., reducing the frequency or likelihood of claims

  Focal point of the course: the agent who fully understands and skillfully customizes coverage not only demonstrates his or her value to clients but also avoids errors and omissions (E&O) charges that can result from a failure to meet clients’ needs.

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• E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    June 12, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109588 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving professional liability and executive liability coverages. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations. 

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• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    June 12, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

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• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    June 13, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

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• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    June 13, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

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• E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance- Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    June 14, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #106648 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Our world is changing and we as agents & brokers need to help our clients understand the need to protect their businesses as technology impacts exposures in order to do this, we need to understand the exposure and coverage.

  A business used to feel fully protected when they purchased Property, General Liability, Auto and Workers Compensation.  A variety of emerging issues now require we pay special attention to exposures not adequately covered by the Business Owners or Package Policies.

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• E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance- Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    June 14, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #106649 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Our world is changing and we as agents & brokers need to help our clients understand the need to protect their businesses as technology impacts exposures in order to do this, we need to understand the exposure and coverage.

  A business used to feel fully protected when they purchased Property, General Liability, Auto and Workers Compensation.  A variety of emerging issues now require we pay special attention to exposures not adequately covered by the Business Owners or Package Policies.

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• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    June 17, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

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• 3 Keys to Getting the Named Insured Correct (ABEN)

  • When
    June 17, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  3 Keys to Getting the Named Insured Correct (ABEN)

  Course #106082 | 2 P&C

  Before any claim is paid, status as an insured must exist. Is the person or entity suffering or causing loss, injury or damage an insured? If the answer is no, there is no need to go any further. If insured status does not exist, all your hard work is wasted; no one will ever find out how good you are at designing coverage because you messed up at the beginning.
  

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• 4 Key Personal & Commercial Lines Exposures Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  • When
    June 17, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  4 Key Personal & Commercial Lines Exposures Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  Course #106083 | 2 P&C

  We cover a lot of ground in this 2 hour session – five topics to be exact - but when we are through, you will be better able to explain some of the new exposures, policy issues, and available options. You will also be more at ease with these “disruptors."

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• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    June 17, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

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• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    June 17, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

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• 5 Contractor Coverage Concepts Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  • When
    June 17, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  5 Contractor Coverage Concepts Every Agent Must Understand (ABEN)

  Course #106851 | 2 P&C

  Contractor risks are unique. Agents must understand these unique risks, exposures, and coverages to properly manage their contractor clients. This seminar focuses on five of the most common contractor risk exposures:

  • Contractual Risk Transfer 
  • Properly Extending Insured Status
  • Business Auto Issues
  • Misuse of the Absolute Pollution Exclusion 
  • Professional and Pollution Exposures Faced by Contractors

  A lot of material is covered in this fast-moving, two-hour session. Agents will be better prepared to analyze the risks presented by their contractor clients and know how to properly respond to their coverage needs and claims questions.

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• 9 Rules for Reading an Insurance Policy Based on the Law of Insurance Contracts (ABEN)

  • When
    June 17, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  9 Rules for Reading an Insurance Policy Based on the Law of Insurance Contracts (ABEN)

  Course #106089 | 2 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristic is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. 

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• E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    June 17, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #110096 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to guide experienced professionals' step by step through the process of reading policy language, applying a basic coverage analysis to look for possible gaps in coverage, and understanding advanced coverage issues. It will explain what to look for in terms of wording, punctuation, and formatting, including negative and positive implications of specific wording. In addition, the course will address E&O loss control issues and help the agency look at ways to obtain and retain business. 

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• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    June 17, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

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• E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    June 17, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #110097 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to guide experienced professionals' step by step through the process of reading policy language, applying a basic coverage analysis to look for possible gaps in coverage, and understanding advanced coverage issues. It will explain what to look for in terms of wording, punctuation, and formatting, including negative and positive implications of specific wording. In addition, the course will address E&O loss control issues and help the agency look at ways to obtain and retain business. 

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• The "Lucky" Thirteen Most Important Issues in Homeowners Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    June 18, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The "Lucky" Thirteen Most Important Issues in Homeowners Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111787 | 3 P&C

  This broad-ranging three hour continuing education seminar is designed to be a review of the most important coverage issues in personal lines insurance for producers not well-versed in the intricacies which may be encountered. For those producers that are familiar with personal lines issues, the course functions as a reminder of some significant issues to address with insureds and an update on current developments in the field.  

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• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    June 18, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

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• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    June 19, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

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• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    June 19, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

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• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    June 19, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

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• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    June 19, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

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• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    June 19, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

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• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    June 19, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

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• E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    June 20, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #111008 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  The standard Homeowners policy provides broad coverage designed to meet the needs of the average American homebuyer.  This “average” home owner may be single or married, with or without children, living in a free-standing single-family home. This typical home owner maintains a modest lifestyle, owns no unusual property, has no unusual hobbies or activities and is not the “exciting” cast of characters you would see in a reality TV show or sitcom.

  To keep premiums reasonable—and for other reasons, these standard policies also exclude or limit coverage for insurable exposures that a minority of families face. These excluded exposures create coverage gaps that can often be filled for an additional premium, by modifying the standard policy’s limits or other provisions, adding an appropriate endorsement, or purchasing an additional policy.

  This course is designed to help insurance practitioners identify and overcome many of the coverage gaps, exclusions, limitations, and uninsured exposures their Homeowners clients face. The approach varies by topic, but the general goal is first to discuss circumstances that might create an atypical exposure or a need for additional insurance beyond that provided by a standard policy, and then to explain measures that can be used to eliminate this coverage gap by insuring or otherwise managing the exposure.  
  

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• E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    June 20, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #111009 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  The standard Homeowners policy provides broad coverage designed to meet the needs of the average American homebuyer.  This “average” home owner may be single or married, with or without children, living in a free-standing single-family home. This typical home owner maintains a modest lifestyle, owns no unusual property, has no unusual hobbies or activities and is not the “exciting” cast of characters you would see in a reality TV show or sitcom.

  To keep premiums reasonable—and for other reasons, these standard policies also exclude or limit coverage for insurable exposures that a minority of families face. These excluded exposures create coverage gaps that can often be filled for an additional premium, by modifying the standard policy’s limits or other provisions, adding an appropriate endorsement, or purchasing an additional policy.

  This course is designed to help insurance practitioners identify and overcome many of the coverage gaps, exclusions, limitations, and uninsured exposures their Homeowners clients face. The approach varies by topic, but the general goal is first to discuss circumstances that might create an atypical exposure or a need for additional insurance beyond that provided by a standard policy, and then to explain measures that can be used to eliminate this coverage gap by insuring or otherwise managing the exposure.  
  

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• The Many Faces of Insurance Fraud (ABEN)

  • When
    June 21, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Many Faces of Insurance Fraud (ABEN)

  Course #111485 | 2 Ethics

  This course will guide you through the most common forms of insurance fraud, revealing the psychology and motivations of swindlers. Through real-life case studies and hands-on exercies, you'll learn practical strategies for indentifying red flags and responding effectively to safeguard your organization. 

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• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    June 21, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

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• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    June 24, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

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• Adding Value In Personal Lines (ABEN)

  • When
    June 24, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Adding Value In Personal Lines (ABEN)

  Course #111211 | 3 P&C

  Our personal lines clients depend upon us to place proper coverages as a major part of their risk management strategy. The property and liability coverages we place on their behalf may ultimately stand between them and bankruptcy in the event of a large loss. This presentation will address the exposures our personal lines clients have which are not well-handled by their unendorsed ISO Homeowners and Personal Auto Policies. A review of endorsements available in these programs will remind the participant that, as all clients are unique, it is routinely necessary to discuss the need for and availability of these very important coverage enhancements. The presentation will conclude with a review of the Personal Umbrella/Excess Liability coverage needs of the personal lines client and discussion of coverages currently available to meet those needs.
  

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• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    June 25, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

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• E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    June 25, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109622 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.
  

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• E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    June 25, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109585 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.

  On completion of this course, the student should be able to recognize and prevent many of the problems associated with selling and servicing the following:

  • Commercial property insurance
  • Equipment breakdown insurance
  • Business interruption and extra expense insurance
  • Commercial inland marine insurance

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• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    June 25, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

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• E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    June 25, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109586 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.

  On completion of this course, the student should be able to recognize and prevent many of the problems associated with selling and servicing the following:

  • Commercial property insurance
  • Equipment breakdown insurance
  • Business interruption and extra expense insurance
  • Commercial inland marine insurance

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• E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    June 25, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109623 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.
  

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• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    June 26, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

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• E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance- Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    June 26, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #106648 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Our world is changing and we as agents & brokers need to help our clients understand the need to protect their businesses as technology impacts exposures in order to do this, we need to understand the exposure and coverage.

  A business used to feel fully protected when they purchased Property, General Liability, Auto and Workers Compensation.  A variety of emerging issues now require we pay special attention to exposures not adequately covered by the Business Owners or Package Policies.

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• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    June 26, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

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• E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance- Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    June 26, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #106649 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Our world is changing and we as agents & brokers need to help our clients understand the need to protect their businesses as technology impacts exposures in order to do this, we need to understand the exposure and coverage.

  A business used to feel fully protected when they purchased Property, General Liability, Auto and Workers Compensation.  A variety of emerging issues now require we pay special attention to exposures not adequately covered by the Business Owners or Package Policies.

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• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    June 27, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

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• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    June 27, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

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• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    June 28, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

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• E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    June 28, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #110780 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to help insurance producers prevent claims based on alleged errors or omissions in performance of professional duties in selling and servicing personal auto and personal umbrella insurance. In this course:

  • Agent, broker, and producer interchangeable terms
  • Prevent is used in the risk management sense - i.e., reducing the frequency or likelihood of claims

  Focal point of the course: the agent who fully understands and skillfully customizes coverage not only demonstrates his or her value to clients but also avoids errors and omissions (E&O) charges that can result from a failure to meet clients’ needs.

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• E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    June 28, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109587 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving professional liability and executive liability coverages. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations. 

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• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    June 28, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

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• E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    June 28, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109588 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving professional liability and executive liability coverages. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations. 

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• E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    June 28, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #110781 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to help insurance producers prevent claims based on alleged errors or omissions in performance of professional duties in selling and servicing personal auto and personal umbrella insurance. In this course:

  • Agent, broker, and producer interchangeable terms
  • Prevent is used in the risk management sense - i.e., reducing the frequency or likelihood of claims

  Focal point of the course: the agent who fully understands and skillfully customizes coverage not only demonstrates his or her value to clients but also avoids errors and omissions (E&O) charges that can result from a failure to meet clients’ needs.

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• E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    July 01, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109585 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.

  On completion of this course, the student should be able to recognize and prevent many of the problems associated with selling and servicing the following:

  • Commercial property insurance
  • Equipment breakdown insurance
  • Business interruption and extra expense insurance
  • Commercial inland marine insurance

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• E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    July 01, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109622 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.
  

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• E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    July 01, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109623 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.
  

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• E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    July 01, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109586 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.

  On completion of this course, the student should be able to recognize and prevent many of the problems associated with selling and servicing the following:

  • Commercial property insurance
  • Equipment breakdown insurance
  • Business interruption and extra expense insurance
  • Commercial inland marine insurance

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• E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    July 02, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109587 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving professional liability and executive liability coverages. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations. 

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• E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    July 02, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #110780 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to help insurance producers prevent claims based on alleged errors or omissions in performance of professional duties in selling and servicing personal auto and personal umbrella insurance. In this course:

  • Agent, broker, and producer interchangeable terms
  • Prevent is used in the risk management sense - i.e., reducing the frequency or likelihood of claims

  Focal point of the course: the agent who fully understands and skillfully customizes coverage not only demonstrates his or her value to clients but also avoids errors and omissions (E&O) charges that can result from a failure to meet clients’ needs.

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• E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    July 02, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #110781 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to help insurance producers prevent claims based on alleged errors or omissions in performance of professional duties in selling and servicing personal auto and personal umbrella insurance. In this course:

  • Agent, broker, and producer interchangeable terms
  • Prevent is used in the risk management sense - i.e., reducing the frequency or likelihood of claims

  Focal point of the course: the agent who fully understands and skillfully customizes coverage not only demonstrates his or her value to clients but also avoids errors and omissions (E&O) charges that can result from a failure to meet clients’ needs.

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• E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    July 02, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109588 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving professional liability and executive liability coverages. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations. 

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• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    July 03, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

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• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    July 03, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

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• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    July 03, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

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• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    July 03, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

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• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    July 03, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

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• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    July 03, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

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• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    July 05, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

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• The "Lucky" Thirteen Most Important Issues in Homeowners Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    July 05, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The "Lucky" Thirteen Most Important Issues in Homeowners Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111787 | 3 P&C

  This broad-ranging three hour continuing education seminar is designed to be a review of the most important coverage issues in personal lines insurance for producers not well-versed in the intricacies which may be encountered. For those producers that are familiar with personal lines issues, the course functions as a reminder of some significant issues to address with insureds and an update on current developments in the field.  

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• E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  • When
    July 05, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  Course #108874 | 1 P&C

  This course is designed to educate insurance industry professionals on the Errors and Omissions exposures they face in various areas of public-facing marketing. This course will cover Standard of Care laws in all states and how special relationships are affected and duties heightened when agencies use certain language in their written materials.   

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• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    July 08, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

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• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    July 08, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

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• E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance- Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    July 08, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #106648 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Our world is changing and we as agents & brokers need to help our clients understand the need to protect their businesses as technology impacts exposures in order to do this, we need to understand the exposure and coverage.

  A business used to feel fully protected when they purchased Property, General Liability, Auto and Workers Compensation.  A variety of emerging issues now require we pay special attention to exposures not adequately covered by the Business Owners or Package Policies.

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• E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance- Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    July 08, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #106649 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Our world is changing and we as agents & brokers need to help our clients understand the need to protect their businesses as technology impacts exposures in order to do this, we need to understand the exposure and coverage.

  A business used to feel fully protected when they purchased Property, General Liability, Auto and Workers Compensation.  A variety of emerging issues now require we pay special attention to exposures not adequately covered by the Business Owners or Package Policies.

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• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    July 08, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

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• E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    July 09, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #111008 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  The standard Homeowners policy provides broad coverage designed to meet the needs of the average American homebuyer.  This “average” home owner may be single or married, with or without children, living in a free-standing single-family home. This typical home owner maintains a modest lifestyle, owns no unusual property, has no unusual hobbies or activities and is not the “exciting” cast of characters you would see in a reality TV show or sitcom.

  To keep premiums reasonable—and for other reasons, these standard policies also exclude or limit coverage for insurable exposures that a minority of families face. These excluded exposures create coverage gaps that can often be filled for an additional premium, by modifying the standard policy’s limits or other provisions, adding an appropriate endorsement, or purchasing an additional policy.

  This course is designed to help insurance practitioners identify and overcome many of the coverage gaps, exclusions, limitations, and uninsured exposures their Homeowners clients face. The approach varies by topic, but the general goal is first to discuss circumstances that might create an atypical exposure or a need for additional insurance beyond that provided by a standard policy, and then to explain measures that can be used to eliminate this coverage gap by insuring or otherwise managing the exposure.  
  

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• E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    July 09, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #111009 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  The standard Homeowners policy provides broad coverage designed to meet the needs of the average American homebuyer.  This “average” home owner may be single or married, with or without children, living in a free-standing single-family home. This typical home owner maintains a modest lifestyle, owns no unusual property, has no unusual hobbies or activities and is not the “exciting” cast of characters you would see in a reality TV show or sitcom.

  To keep premiums reasonable—and for other reasons, these standard policies also exclude or limit coverage for insurable exposures that a minority of families face. These excluded exposures create coverage gaps that can often be filled for an additional premium, by modifying the standard policy’s limits or other provisions, adding an appropriate endorsement, or purchasing an additional policy.

  This course is designed to help insurance practitioners identify and overcome many of the coverage gaps, exclusions, limitations, and uninsured exposures their Homeowners clients face. The approach varies by topic, but the general goal is first to discuss circumstances that might create an atypical exposure or a need for additional insurance beyond that provided by a standard policy, and then to explain measures that can be used to eliminate this coverage gap by insuring or otherwise managing the exposure.  
  

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• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    July 10, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

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• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    July 10, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

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• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    July 11, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

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• E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    July 11, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #110096 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to guide experienced professionals' step by step through the process of reading policy language, applying a basic coverage analysis to look for possible gaps in coverage, and understanding advanced coverage issues. It will explain what to look for in terms of wording, punctuation, and formatting, including negative and positive implications of specific wording. In addition, the course will address E&O loss control issues and help the agency look at ways to obtain and retain business. 

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• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    July 11, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

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• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    July 11, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

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• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    July 11, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

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• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    July 11, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

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• E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    July 11, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #110097 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to guide experienced professionals' step by step through the process of reading policy language, applying a basic coverage analysis to look for possible gaps in coverage, and understanding advanced coverage issues. It will explain what to look for in terms of wording, punctuation, and formatting, including negative and positive implications of specific wording. In addition, the course will address E&O loss control issues and help the agency look at ways to obtain and retain business. 

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• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    July 12, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

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• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    July 12, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

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• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    July 12, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

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• Adding Value In Personal Lines (ABEN)

  • When
    July 15, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Adding Value In Personal Lines (ABEN)

  Course #111211 | 3 P&C

  Our personal lines clients depend upon us to place proper coverages as a major part of their risk management strategy. The property and liability coverages we place on their behalf may ultimately stand between them and bankruptcy in the event of a large loss. This presentation will address the exposures our personal lines clients have which are not well-handled by their unendorsed ISO Homeowners and Personal Auto Policies. A review of endorsements available in these programs will remind the participant that, as all clients are unique, it is routinely necessary to discuss the need for and availability of these very important coverage enhancements. The presentation will conclude with a review of the Personal Umbrella/Excess Liability coverage needs of the personal lines client and discussion of coverages currently available to meet those needs.
  

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• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    July 15, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

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• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    July 16, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

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• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    July 16, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

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• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    July 16, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

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• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    July 16, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

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• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    July 16, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

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• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    July 16, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

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• E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    July 17, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109585 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.

  On completion of this course, the student should be able to recognize and prevent many of the problems associated with selling and servicing the following:

  • Commercial property insurance
  • Equipment breakdown insurance
  • Business interruption and extra expense insurance
  • Commercial inland marine insurance

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• E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    July 17, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109622 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.
  

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• E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    July 17, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109623 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.
  

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• E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    July 17, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Commercial Property Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109586 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving commercial liability insurance. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations.

  On completion of this course, the student should be able to recognize and prevent many of the problems associated with selling and servicing the following:

  • Commercial property insurance
  • Equipment breakdown insurance
  • Business interruption and extra expense insurance
  • Commercial inland marine insurance

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• E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    July 18, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #109587 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving professional liability and executive liability coverages. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations. 

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• E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    July 18, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #110780 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to help insurance producers prevent claims based on alleged errors or omissions in performance of professional duties in selling and servicing personal auto and personal umbrella insurance. In this course:

  • Agent, broker, and producer interchangeable terms
  • Prevent is used in the risk management sense - i.e., reducing the frequency or likelihood of claims

  Focal point of the course: the agent who fully understands and skillfully customizes coverage not only demonstrates his or her value to clients but also avoids errors and omissions (E&O) charges that can result from a failure to meet clients’ needs.

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• E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    July 18, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Personal Auto and Umbrella Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #110781 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to help insurance producers prevent claims based on alleged errors or omissions in performance of professional duties in selling and servicing personal auto and personal umbrella insurance. In this course:

  • Agent, broker, and producer interchangeable terms
  • Prevent is used in the risk management sense - i.e., reducing the frequency or likelihood of claims

  Focal point of the course: the agent who fully understands and skillfully customizes coverage not only demonstrates his or her value to clients but also avoids errors and omissions (E&O) charges that can result from a failure to meet clients’ needs.

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• E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    July 18, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Professional and Executive Liability Coverage Gaps & How To Fill Them - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #109588 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Errors and omissions by an insurance producer can be extremely costly and damaging to the producer’s professional reputation. This course is designed to help insurance agents and brokers prevent many types of errors and omissions involving professional liability and executive liability coverages. The verb prevent is used here in the risk management sense. Loss prevention seeks to reduce the frequency or likelihood of claims. Complete avoidance is impossible. An agent or broker who has handled everything properly, following every guideline within this course, may still be sued for some alleged error or omission. However, the producer who successfully completes this course is less likely to be charged with an error or omission and will probably be better able to defend himself or herself against these allegations. 

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• E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance- Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    July 19, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #106648 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Our world is changing and we as agents & brokers need to help our clients understand the need to protect their businesses as technology impacts exposures in order to do this, we need to understand the exposure and coverage.

  A business used to feel fully protected when they purchased Property, General Liability, Auto and Workers Compensation.  A variety of emerging issues now require we pay special attention to exposures not adequately covered by the Business Owners or Package Policies.

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• E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance- Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    July 19, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Cyber & Privacy Insurance - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #106649 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  Our world is changing and we as agents & brokers need to help our clients understand the need to protect their businesses as technology impacts exposures in order to do this, we need to understand the exposure and coverage.

  A business used to feel fully protected when they purchased Property, General Liability, Auto and Workers Compensation.  A variety of emerging issues now require we pay special attention to exposures not adequately covered by the Business Owners or Package Policies.

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• E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    July 21, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #110096 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to guide experienced professionals' step by step through the process of reading policy language, applying a basic coverage analysis to look for possible gaps in coverage, and understanding advanced coverage issues. It will explain what to look for in terms of wording, punctuation, and formatting, including negative and positive implications of specific wording. In addition, the course will address E&O loss control issues and help the agency look at ways to obtain and retain business. 

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• E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    July 21, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Policy Analysis - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #110097 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  This course is designed to guide experienced professionals' step by step through the process of reading policy language, applying a basic coverage analysis to look for possible gaps in coverage, and understanding advanced coverage issues. It will explain what to look for in terms of wording, punctuation, and formatting, including negative and positive implications of specific wording. In addition, the course will address E&O loss control issues and help the agency look at ways to obtain and retain business. 

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• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    July 22, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

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• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    July 22, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

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• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    July 22, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

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• E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part I (ABEN)

  • When
    July 22, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part I (ABEN)

  Course #111008 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part I of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  The standard Homeowners policy provides broad coverage designed to meet the needs of the average American homebuyer.  This “average” home owner may be single or married, with or without children, living in a free-standing single-family home. This typical home owner maintains a modest lifestyle, owns no unusual property, has no unusual hobbies or activities and is not the “exciting” cast of characters you would see in a reality TV show or sitcom.

  To keep premiums reasonable—and for other reasons, these standard policies also exclude or limit coverage for insurable exposures that a minority of families face. These excluded exposures create coverage gaps that can often be filled for an additional premium, by modifying the standard policy’s limits or other provisions, adding an appropriate endorsement, or purchasing an additional policy.

  This course is designed to help insurance practitioners identify and overcome many of the coverage gaps, exclusions, limitations, and uninsured exposures their Homeowners clients face. The approach varies by topic, but the general goal is first to discuss circumstances that might create an atypical exposure or a need for additional insurance beyond that provided by a standard policy, and then to explain measures that can be used to eliminate this coverage gap by insuring or otherwise managing the exposure.  
  

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• E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part II (ABEN)

  • When
    July 22, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Roadmap to Homeowners Endorsements and Personal Inland Marine - Part II (ABEN)

  Course #111009 | 3 P&C

  This course is Part II of II in this E&O module - As of January 1, 2020, 3 hours of content must be taken to qualify for the 10% E&O premium discount!

  The standard Homeowners policy provides broad coverage designed to meet the needs of the average American homebuyer.  This “average” home owner may be single or married, with or without children, living in a free-standing single-family home. This typical home owner maintains a modest lifestyle, owns no unusual property, has no unusual hobbies or activities and is not the “exciting” cast of characters you would see in a reality TV show or sitcom.

  To keep premiums reasonable—and for other reasons, these standard policies also exclude or limit coverage for insurable exposures that a minority of families face. These excluded exposures create coverage gaps that can often be filled for an additional premium, by modifying the standard policy’s limits or other provisions, adding an appropriate endorsement, or purchasing an additional policy.

  This course is designed to help insurance practitioners identify and overcome many of the coverage gaps, exclusions, limitations, and uninsured exposures their Homeowners clients face. The approach varies by topic, but the general goal is first to discuss circumstances that might create an atypical exposure or a need for additional insurance beyond that provided by a standard policy, and then to explain measures that can be used to eliminate this coverage gap by insuring or otherwise managing the exposure.  
  

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• The "Lucky" Thirteen Most Important Issues in Homeowners Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    July 23, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The "Lucky" Thirteen Most Important Issues in Homeowners Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111787 | 3 P&C

  This broad-ranging three hour continuing education seminar is designed to be a review of the most important coverage issues in personal lines insurance for producers not well-versed in the intricacies which may be encountered. For those producers that are familiar with personal lines issues, the course functions as a reminder of some significant issues to address with insureds and an update on current developments in the field.  

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• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    July 23, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

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• E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  • When
    July 23, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  Course #108874 | 1 P&C

  This course is designed to educate insurance industry professionals on the Errors and Omissions exposures they face in various areas of public-facing marketing. This course will cover Standard of Care laws in all states and how special relationships are affected and duties heightened when agencies use certain language in their written materials.   

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• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    July 24, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

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• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    July 25, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

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• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    July 25, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

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• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    July 26, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

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• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    July 26, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

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• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    July 26, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

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• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    July 26, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

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• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    July 29, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

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• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    July 29, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

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• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    July 30, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

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• Adding Value In Personal Lines (ABEN)

  • When
    July 30, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Adding Value In Personal Lines (ABEN)

  Course #111211 | 3 P&C

  Our personal lines clients depend upon us to place proper coverages as a major part of their risk management strategy. The property and liability coverages we place on their behalf may ultimately stand between them and bankruptcy in the event of a large loss. This presentation will address the exposures our personal lines clients have which are not well-handled by their unendorsed ISO Homeowners and Personal Auto Policies. A review of endorsements available in these programs will remind the participant that, as all clients are unique, it is routinely necessary to discuss the need for and availability of these very important coverage enhancements. The presentation will conclude with a review of the Personal Umbrella/Excess Liability coverage needs of the personal lines client and discussion of coverages currently available to meet those needs.
  

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• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    July 31, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

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• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    August 02, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

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• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    August 05, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

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• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    August 05, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

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• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    August 06, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

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• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    August 06, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

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• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    August 06, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

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• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    August 06, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

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• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    August 06, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

  Register Here

  Show details
• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    August 07, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    August 08, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

  Register Here

  Show details
• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    August 08, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    August 09, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    August 12, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    August 13, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    August 13, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    August 13, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    August 13, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    August 13, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    August 13, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

  Register Here

  Show details
• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    August 14, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

  Register Here

  Show details
• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    August 14, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

  Register Here

  Show details
• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    August 15, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

  Register Here

  Show details
• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    August 16, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    August 16, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

  Register Here

  Show details
• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    August 19, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    August 19, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    August 20, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    August 20, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    August 21, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    August 22, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    August 23, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

  Register Here

  Show details
• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    August 23, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    August 23, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    August 26, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

  Register Here

  Show details
• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    August 26, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    August 26, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    August 26, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    August 26, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    August 26, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    August 26, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    August 26, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

  Register Here

  Show details
• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    August 27, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    September 05, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

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• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    September 06, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

  Register Here

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• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    September 06, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

  Register Here

  Show details
• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    September 09, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

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• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    September 09, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

  Register Here

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• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    September 09, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    September 09, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

  Register Here

  Show details
• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    September 09, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

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• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    September 09, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    September 09, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

  Register Here

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• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    September 10, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

  Register Here

  Show details
• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    September 10, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

  Register Here

  Show details
• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    September 11, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

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• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    September 11, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    September 12, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

  Register Here

  Show details
• E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  • When
    September 12, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  Course #108874 | 1 P&C

  This course is designed to educate insurance industry professionals on the Errors and Omissions exposures they face in various areas of public-facing marketing. This course will cover Standard of Care laws in all states and how special relationships are affected and duties heightened when agencies use certain language in their written materials.   

  Register Here

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• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    September 13, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

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• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    September 13, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

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• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    September 13, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

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• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    September 13, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

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• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    September 13, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

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• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    September 13, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

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• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    September 17, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

  Register Here

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• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    September 18, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

  Register Here

  Show details
• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    September 18, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    September 19, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    September 19, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    September 20, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

  Register Here

  Show details
• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    September 20, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    September 24, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    September 24, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

  Register Here

  Show details
• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    September 24, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    September 24, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  • When
    September 25, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  Course #108874 | 1 P&C

  This course is designed to educate insurance industry professionals on the Errors and Omissions exposures they face in various areas of public-facing marketing. This course will cover Standard of Care laws in all states and how special relationships are affected and duties heightened when agencies use certain language in their written materials.   

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    September 25, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

  Register Here

  Show details
• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    September 26, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

  Register Here

  Show details
• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    September 26, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

  Register Here

  Show details
• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    September 27, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    September 30, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    September 30, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    September 30, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    September 30, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    September 30, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    September 30, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    October 01, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    October 02, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    October 03, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    October 03, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    October 03, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    October 03, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    October 03, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    October 03, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    October 04, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    October 04, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    October 04, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

  Register Here

  Show details
• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    October 07, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    October 08, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

  Register Here

  Show details
• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    October 09, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    October 09, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

  Register Here

  Show details
• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    October 10, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

  Register Here

  Show details
• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    October 10, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    October 10, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

  Register Here

  Show details
• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    October 10, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    October 14, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

  Register Here

  Show details
• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    October 14, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    October 16, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    October 17, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    October 18, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    October 18, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    October 18, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    October 18, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    October 18, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

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• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    October 18, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

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• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    October 22, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

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• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    October 22, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

  Register Here

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• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    October 22, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

  Register Here

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• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    October 23, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

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• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    October 24, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

  Register Here

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• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    October 25, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

  Register Here

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• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    October 25, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

  Register Here

  Show details
• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    October 28, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

  Register Here

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• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    October 28, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

  Register Here

  Show details
• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    October 29, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

  Register Here

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• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    October 29, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

  Register Here

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• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    October 30, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

  Register Here

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• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    October 30, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

  Register Here

  Show details
• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    November 01, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

  Register Here

  Show details
• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    November 04, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

  Register Here

  Show details
• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    November 04, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

  Register Here

  Show details
• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    November 04, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

  Register Here

  Show details
• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    November 04, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    November 05, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    November 05, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    November 06, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

  Register Here

  Show details
• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    November 06, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    November 11, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

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• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    November 12, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

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• E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  • When
    November 12, 2024
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  Course #108874 | 1 P&C

  This course is designed to educate insurance industry professionals on the Errors and Omissions exposures they face in various areas of public-facing marketing. This course will cover Standard of Care laws in all states and how special relationships are affected and duties heightened when agencies use certain language in their written materials.   

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• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    November 13, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

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• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    November 13, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

  Register Here

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• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    November 13, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

  Register Here

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• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    November 13, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

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• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    November 13, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

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• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    November 13, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    November 13, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

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• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    November 13, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

  Register Here

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• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    November 13, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

  Register Here

  Show details
• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    November 14, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

  Register Here

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• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    November 15, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

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• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    November 15, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

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• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    November 18, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

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• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    November 19, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

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• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    November 19, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

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• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    November 20, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

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• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    November 20, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

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• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    November 21, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

  Register Here

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• E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  • When
    November 22, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  E&O Exposures: Websites & Social Media (ABEN)

  Course #108874 | 1 P&C

  This course is designed to educate insurance industry professionals on the Errors and Omissions exposures they face in various areas of public-facing marketing. This course will cover Standard of Care laws in all states and how special relationships are affected and duties heightened when agencies use certain language in their written materials.   

  Register Here

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• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    November 22, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    November 25, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

  Register Here

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• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    November 25, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    November 25, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

  Register Here

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• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    November 26, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

  Register Here

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• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    November 26, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    November 26, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

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• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    November 27, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

  Register Here

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• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    November 27, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    November 27, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    November 27, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    November 27, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    December 03, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    December 03, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

  Register Here

  Show details
• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    December 03, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    December 03, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    December 03, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    December 04, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    December 05, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    December 05, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    December 05, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    December 05, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

  Register Here

  Show details
• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    December 05, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    December 05, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    December 05, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

  Register Here

  Show details
• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    December 05, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

  Register Here

  Show details
• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    December 09, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

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• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    December 11, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

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• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    December 11, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

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• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    December 12, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

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• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    December 12, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

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• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    December 13, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

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• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    December 13, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

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• The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  • When
    December 16, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Basics of Property Values & Coinsurance Conditions (ABEN)

  Course #106862 | 3 P&C

  Replacement cost ain’t always replacement cost. Yes, I know that is poor English – but the point is, replacement cost isn’t as simple as new stuff for old junk. There are many caveats and limitations to full replacement cost (if there is such a thing). Key concepts that must be understood when property valuation is discussed include: actual cash value (ACV); the broad evidence rule; and indemnification.

  But what happens if the property limits are too low? Property policies contain a Coinsurance Condition requiring the insured to carry a certain minimum amount of coverage to enjoy full coverage on partial losses. If the insured does not have the requisite limits, they could be penalized.

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• The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  • When
    December 16, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Personal Auto Policy - A Friendly Little Fella - Until He Isn't (ABEN)

  Course #111763 | 3 P&C

  The Personal Auto Policy (PAP) is the most often written insurance policy in our industry. If a person has only one insurance policy, it is very likely a Personal Auto Policy. This coverage form is an incredibly important part of a personal risk management plan for each and every personal lines client because of their liability exposures. Even if a client does not own an auto, a Personal Auto Policy should be considered. The PAP provides broad liability protection, but careful review of its Insuring Agreements, exclusions and conditions must be undertaken by the insurance professional to make certain that it is truly a ‘A Friendly Little Fella’.

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• An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  • When
    December 16, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #111417 | 2 P&C

  This class will look at characteristics that lead to hoarding and examine reasons why insurance companies may not want to insure the increased risks hoarding can bring. It will take a look at some famous hoarders in history, and the obsessive need to keep items. 

  We will discuss some of the different types of items that are hoarder and the general issues they can cause. We will review actual insurance claims involving hoarders and discuss other possibilities that could lead to claims, whether damage to the property or from the property.

  We will discuss how carriers can try to address the problem and discuss differences that make these unique claims handling situations.

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• Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  • When
    December 16, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Demystifying the Business Auto Coverage Form (ABEN)

  Course #111762 | 3 P&C

  The Business Auto Policy (BAP) is the 'go to' coverage form for our clients who have liability and physical damage exposures. Protection for autos owned by, used by and even those autos not owned by our clients, but for whom they have vicarious responsibility can be afforded coverage in a properly-written BAP. This session will remind insurance professionals that coverage in the BAP must be 'constructed'. Much like a puzzle, once properly put together, the BAP is a work of art. If not properly constructed, any missing pieces of the puzzle can be result in anything but a beautiful picture. A thorough review of definitions, Symbols, the liability Insuring Agreement and exclusions will remind the participant how important it is to limit the missing puzzle pieces.
  

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• Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    December 17, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Importance of Ordinance or Law Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107665 | 2 P&C

  Insurance agents do a bad job of explaining the concept of "replacement cost." We tend to tell clients they will get new stuff for old junk and while that may be partially true, partial truths get you sued.

  One roadblock to replacement cost is building codes or what we insurance practitioners refer to as ordinances or laws. Unendorsed policies offer only a VERY limited amount of coverage for the increased costs to rebuild due to these ordinances or laws, and when your insured is forced to pay these additional costs out-of-pocket, they are going to be mad!

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• What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  • When
    December 19, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What To Do With Rental Cars (ABEN)

  Course #111750 | 3 P&C

  This course will examine the coverages provided by the Personal Auto policy for rental cars and some of the potential coverage gaps that may be created by the rental car contract.
  

  • Rental Exposures
  • The Rental Agreement
  • Potential Coverage Gaps

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• What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    December 19, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  What A Crime - Understanding Crime Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #111652 | 3 P&C

  This seminar will explore the need for crime insurance and explain the methods of writing crime insurance. Participants will learn the difference in the Loss Sustained and the Discovery forms of crime policies and examine some of the most widely needed crime insurance forms. The course concludes by examining crime insurance exclusions and policy conditions.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Crime insurance triggers
  • Crime coverage forms
  • Crime exclusions and conditions

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• Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  • When
    December 20, 2024
  •  
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Business Income is the MOST Important Property Coverage (ABEN)

  Course #107666 | 2 P&C

  Business income is the most undersold property coverage – perhaps because it's the most misunderstood and scary – but businesses exist to make money and without income, the business ceases to exist.

  In reality, business income is quite simple once the basic concepts are understood.

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• Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  • When
    December 20, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Why Certificates of Insurance...Just Why? (ABEN)

  Course #106085 | 2 P&C

  Without using hyperbole, thousands of certificates of insurance (COIs) are issued every day; and, again without hyperbole, most of them are issued improperly. In fact, your agency may have issued an improper certificate as recently as this morning.

  What is it about COIs that can get an agency in trouble? If there were just one or two things, it would make your job a whole lot easier, but in reality, there are about 27 different ways a COI can get you in trouble. OK, so 27 isn't an exact number, but you get the idea. A "simple" COI is a potentially dangerous weapon that can be used against your agency.

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• Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  • When
    December 20, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation: 5 Mistakes Every Agent Makes (ABEN)

  Course #106087 | 2 P&C

  Workers' compensation, as a coverage, is simple. A worker gets hurt, the work comp policy pays theoretically. That's the simple part.

  The more complicated areas of workers' compensation involve the state laws and legal doctrines applicable to workers' comp.

  Agents must be able to answer these questions when they arise. But there is much confusion and misinformation surrounding these topics. This session undertakes to introduce and answer these five questions to help prepare agents to better manage their client's usual and unusual workers' compensation exposures.

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• Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  • When
    December 20, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Watch Your Six - A Half Dozen Ethics Scenarios for Insurance Professionals (ABEN)

  Course #109435 | 3 Ethics

  For instructors as well as producers, the ongoing study of professional ethics is a continuing education class struggle. By the very nature of the subject, ethics classes run the risk of being filled with platitudes or devolving into sermons. Platitudes and sermons do not make for good attendee engagement, which ultimately hurts the effectiveness of the class.

  This seminar uses a few minutes to make this point and to explain what follows. The first hour is to demonstrate that professional ethics are worth studying – and worthy of continuing education – and do have a few objective characteristics to them. The hour concludes with a brief review of how professional ethics is good in theory and often quite bad in practice – it looks at the process of “moral disengagement” from an Insurance Journal article.

  The second and third hour seek to engage the students by reviewing actual, case-based situations to determine the best ethical resolution and decide how the controversy could have been avoided. In each instance, the scenario presented is based on a real case. Students receive “resolution” of the dilemma by the discussion of the outcome of the case, but are also left to ponder some of the ethics quandaries that are embedded in each situation.

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• Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  • When
    December 20, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding (and Managing) the Largest Government Benefits: Social Security and Medicare (ABEN)

  Course #109939 | 3 L&H

  The United States government provides various programs to us - two of the largest are Social Security and Medicare. The qualification rules for both are very specific. This three-hour webinar will review the various qualification rules and the complex, and potentially confusing benefits of each program. Additionally, there will be a review of the various insurance products that are available to the Medicare beneficiary that can fill the gaps and a discussion of various products and concepts the Social Security beneficiary can consider so as not to be 100% dependent on that program at retirement time.
  

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• An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  • When
    December 20, 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Hour of True Crime - Wrong Way Driver (ABEN)

  Course #111424 | 1 P&C

  This course will discuss a four car accident which resulted in multiple fatalities.  Attendees will learn what coverages were needed to respond to the loss and to the multiple lawsuits which arose from the loss.
  

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• Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    December 20, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding Trucking & Motor Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #109144 | 2 P&C

  Trucking coverage and Motor Carrier coverage are very similar, but each is designed for different types of risks and somewhat different operations. This session focuses on the similarities of these coverage forms as well as the differences between them.

  Primary vs. excess coverage is unique in trucking and motor carrier coverages because a contract can change the “natural order" of the policy. Which policy is primary and which is excess? It depends. And this can be different for the trailer. A key section of this class details primary vs. excess coverage.

  What about the MCS-90? What does this endorsement do when it is attached to the policy? Many agents just throw it in without considering the ramifications. That's…bad. Learn the purpose and effect of the MCS-90.

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• Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  • When
    December 23, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Torts, Negligence and Legal Liability (ABEN)

  Course #106859 | 3 P&C

  Coverage Part A of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy begins: “We will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of ‘bodily injury’ or ‘property damage’ to which this insurance applies.” Somewhat similar wording is found in the business auto policy, and most “general” liability coverage. These policies extend coverage when the insured is “legally liable” for specific injury or damage. But what is legal liability and how does the insured become legally liable?

  Legal liability is imposed by statute or the courts on the person or entity responsible for causing financial injury or damage to another “person.” Legal liability can arise from intentional acts, unintentional acts or contracts (express or implied). In this class we:

  • Define and differentiate between "public wrongs" and "private wrongs"
  • Introduce the various types of "Torts"
  • Detail the concept of "Negligence"
  • Define "damages"
  • Break down causation and ultimate liability 
  • Introduce several common and unique legal theories related to the degrees of negligence 

  Register Here

  Show details
• The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  • When
    December 23, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  The Law of Insurance Contracts and the 'Rules' of Policy Interpretation (ABEN)

  Course #106858 | 3 P&C

  Insurance policies are subject to the standard law of contracts; but beyond simple contract law, insurance contracts are bound by unique provisions and requirements specific to insurance. An understanding of these unique legal characteristics is necessary to understand the insurance contract. Once the unusual characteristics of insurance contracts are understood, the rules for reading any insurance policy can be applied. In this class students learn:

  • The basic provisions of contract law; 
  • The unique legal characteristics of insurance contracts;
  • The general construction of insurance contracts;
  • The 'rules' for reading and understanding ANY insurance policy; and 
  • Why exclusions exist 

  Register Here

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• To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  • When
    December 24, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  To Be or Not to AirBnb - Sharing Exposures and Insurance (ABEN)

  Course #110192 | 2 P&C

  This course addresses aspects of the emerging sharing economy’s use of personal autos and homes.  It provides a discussion of the nature of these exposures and how Personal Auto policies and Homeowners policies respond.  There is also a brief discussion of the impact these exposures can have on the Business Auto policies.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the Emergence of the Sharing Economy 
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Auto Sharing
  • Understand the Insurance Applications of Home Sharing

  Register Here

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• What Ever Happened to "And They Lived Happily Ever After?" (ABEN)

  • When
    December 26, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  An Insurance Horror Story - Hoarders (ABEN)

  Course #110016 | 2 L&H

  Planning for retirement took a big turn in the early 1980's with the passing of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This presentation compares retirement planning before and after ERISA. With a much greater responsibility on each individual to decide what is best for their retirement, needs and solutions are emphasized. 

  Register Here

  Show details
• Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  • When
    December 26, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Ethics - Creating A Winning Culture in the Agency (ABEN)

  Course #109436 | 3 Ethics

  Every organization has a culture, whether you realize it or not.  The question then becomes, does your team recognize, understand, and support a developed culture.  We will discuss the approaches to ethical decision making and how agency culture influences those decisions. We will examine why teamwork is also critical not only for the agency’s financial success, but their ethical success as well.  We will discuss Healthy v. Smart and how that will grow your organization.  In addition, we will look at how to maintain your agency culture with your remote employees.
  

  Register Here

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• Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  • When
    December 27, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Workers' Compensation and the Law (ABEN)

  Course #109432 | 3 P&C

  This class will look at the legal obligations and defenses of the employer-employee relationship, and how the Workers Compensation system modifies the legal concepts of common law. We will examine the major characteristics of the benefits provided by state workers compensation laws and discuss the coverages provided by the policy including Employers Liability coverage. Several Workers Compensation endorsements will also be reviewed.
  

  Register Here

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• Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  • When
    December 27, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ABEN Webinar

  Understanding the Insurance Industry: From Regulations to Operations (ABEN)

  Course #106854 | 3 P&C

  Insurance is regulated at the state level, but this has not always been the case. Philosophical differences regarding antitrust and regulation in general have altered the course of insurance regulation twice in just the last 80 years.

  Within this heavily regulated industry, three distinct types or “styles” of insurance exist in the modern economy: 1) Private; 2) Social; and 3) Public Guarantee insurance. Other than most “public guarantee” schemes, insurance carriers provide the majority of insurance products consumed in the US.

  Insurance carriers juggle five main functions and, to varying degrees, three minor functions.  Major functions include: ratemaking; new business production; underwriting; loss adjustment; and investing. Minor carrier functions include engineering and loss control; legal counsel; and accounting.

  Register Here

  Show details