Maine
Insurance Continuing Education Webinars

Review the many types of insurance fraud, including life, health, property and liability fraud.

We will examine several active shooter events and the losses sustained. Policies currently available and the coverage they provide will be reviewed.

Coverage for your rental car may come from many different places, including your personal auto policy, your credit card or the car rental company. This webinar will review these options.

Does it feel like cheaters are rewarded, respected and admired despite their actions? Are their excuses and deflections given weight even though they are juvenile and nonsensical? We will explore these topics by examining The University of Michigan football program and other cheating scandals and relating them to the insurance industry.

Credit insurance is offered by lenders to borrowers to help pay off loans in the event of death or disability. This webinar will review many of the options available on these products.

Earthquakes, mudslides and sinkholes? Let's explore where they can occur and how they can be covered by homeowners and other personal insurance policies.

We will review options for group life insurance, short term and long term disability insurance, and voluntary benefits, including dental, vision and flexible spending accounts. While we won't review major medical coverage in detail, the instructor will review some options for small employers to offer group health for employees.

Join Dave Dybdahl, renowned environmental liability insurance expert, to gain a new appreciation of the uninsured contamination risks in your customer base. We will explore the wide-ranging effects of pollution/contamination exclusions and how to mitigate those risks.

We will look at the producer's professional responsibilities, common mistakes that lead to lawsuits, the errors and omissions policies that may cover these risks and steps the producer can take to reduce their risk of loss.

We create incentives to motivate people to do the things we need them to do. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. Sometimes they game the incentive to get what they want without doing what we want. We will review these incentives and how to catch the gamers.

Many people overlook the need for insurance at an event, but whether you are an organizer, performer, or attendee, you may need insurance to cover some risk. This class will explore the stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair in 2011, the coverage available for private events like weddings and birthday parties, ticket insurance for concerts scheduled far in the future, and more!

We will review the National Flood Insurance Program, how it covers real property and contents, exclusions and deductibles, and FEMA's Risk Rating 2.0 rating system.

Seemingly everyone has a HIGH deductible on their major medical insurance, but what exactly qualifies one for a health savings account? We will review the rules for HSAs and compare them to flexible spending accounts and health reimbursement accounts.

Homeowners insurance isn't the most exciting topic in the universe, but we can find some interesting exclusions, conditions and concepts to review to enhance our understanding of this coverage.

Ethics evolve over time and it can be a challenge to keep up. We will review some of the ethical standards of today and how to stay current with the trends of the future. We will also review a cautionary tale about texting with customers.

Major League Baseball teams use insurance to hedge the risks associated with signing long-term free agents. NCAA athletes use disability insurance to protect themselves against career-threatening injury. Who pays for this? What does it cost? How big a factor is the insurance in big league decisions? We will explore all of this in this terrific session for any sports fan!

Amidst the news of police shootings and uses of excessive force, the insurance industry is quietly putting pressure on police departments across the country to change their ways. Learn about the risks police departments face from civil lawsuits and how they seek to mitigate that risk with private insurance and municipal risk pools.

The history of kidnap gangs in the U.S. started in the 1920s and the business spread rapidly. We will look at the current risk of kidnapping for ransom both in the U.S. and around the globe as well as the insurance policies available to mitigate the risks. The services employed to extract the kidnapped will also be explored.

Are there any exceptions to the requirement for individuals to consent to life insurance policies being written on their life? What does Teddy Roosevelt have to do with incontestability? What constitutes a rebate? We will explore these questions and more!

Let's review the risks of needing care, various care settings and the costs for each, coverage options and partnership programs.

Learn from Eddie Velez, senior market specialist, about Medicare-related products, applicable state and federal laws, and examine suitability concerns.

We will explore several property and casualty concepts including subrogation, assignments, concurrent causation, bailments and more. Real life examples and stories will be shared to enhance our understanding.

Do you know how your Social Security Retirement benefits are calculated? We will review eligibility, taxes contribution limits and conclude the class with a detailed look at the benefit calculation.

Let's review the Social Security disability insurance program, its eligibility requirements, benefits calculation and appeals options.

Let's take a dive into maximizing Social Security retirement benefits! We will examine how benefits can be withheld if you are receiving benefits and working prior to your full retirement age--and we will look at how they are paid back. We will look at spousal benefits, survivor benefits and much more!

This course will review the history of terrorist attacks in the US, how acts of terrorism are excluded from commercial insurance policies and how coverage can be added back. Some suggestions on how to talk about terrorism coverage with customers will be offered.

This session will review the most common causes of death and injury in the United States. Some of them may surprise you!