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The Essentials to Better Understanding Your Financials

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

FREE to Members - Approved for 1 CEC

Mastering Business Income: Tools and Tips to Keep Insureds Flush

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Many insurance pros know it’s the (indirect) loss after the (direct) loss that kills the business. Unfortunately, many lack an understanding of Business Income and related coverages to the point where such may not even be offered to an insured! This ...

CRIS - Part 3 - Commercial Auto, Surety, CIPS & Misc Lines

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

This course provides an overview of various additional coverage needs of many contractors, including auto liability, professional liability, pollution liability, employment practices liability, directors and officers liability, fiduciary ...

ACSR #5 - Customer Service and It's Impact [

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

This "INTERMEDIATE LEVEL" seminar overviews insurance business including, principals, nature and organizations as well as legal issues, risk management, and insurance sales and account development. Ethics Requirement: All students must complete ...

Employment Practices Liability - A Coverage No Business Can Afford to be Without

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

This course addresses many employment-related liability exposures faced by today’s employers: discrimination and harassment claims by employees and third parties, employee privacy concerns, retaliation claims, wage and hour claims and more. We ...

Certificates & Additional Insureds: What Did You Do To Deserve This?

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Ask a hundred commercial insurance professionals to describe in a few words the most frustrating part of the job and 99 of them likely will answer “certificates” or “Additional Insured endorsements.” The seemingly constant changes to rules, ...

Commercial Property: Recent Changes and Crucial Concepts

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Insurance Services Office’s (ISO) latest additions to its Commercial Property forms contain numerous features not seen in prior editions. Insurance pros who take this course will dive deep into the forms and gain expertise on many features ...

CIC: Commercial Casualty

CIC: Commercial Casualty Gain a detailed understanding of the coverage, limitations, and exclusions of the Commercial General Liability (CGL) Policy, the Business Auto Policy (BAP), and the Workers’ Compensation and Employers’ Liability ...

CIC James K Ruble Graduate Seminar

Ruble In-Person  The Ruble Graduate Seminars provide advanced and diverse curricula and focus on current property and casualty issues and solutions, life and health exposures, risk management and insurance alternatives, as well as specific ...

Agents E&O: Duties, Best Practices, Operations Workflows & Certificates

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

NEW IN 2022!  Agents who focus on E&O loss prevention fortify their agency from potentially devastating claims while improving the customer experience. In this course, agents will learn best practices regarding agent’s duties, agency ...

Claims That Will Convince Your Insured to Enhance Their Homeowners Coverages

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

To save a few bucks, consumers are quick to strip off valuable coverage from their homeowners policy and/or buy coverage that doesn’t match their exposure. This course will review several claims and coverage examples agents can use to talk ...

All Things Ethics: Agent Obligations, Standards, Authority & More

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

This course uses a variety of scenarios to assist agents in ethical decision making. We will review several examples of agent obligations to insureds, carriers and others. We will discuss agency standards with regards to ethics, agent authority as ...

Adventures in Aging: Social Security & Other Retirement Income Solutions

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Retirement is coming (and for many has already arrived!) Join veteran insurance educator Chris Amrhein as he shares his own adventures with Social Security and other retirement income solutions for seniors. He’ll discuss eligibility, ...

Growing Good Insurance: Property & Liability Endorsements to Fortify Farm Risks

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

This presentation will concentrate on the Insurance Services Office (ISO) Farm Property and Liability Coverage Forms and vital endorsements necessary for most clients involved in an agribusiness operation. Presented by Sam Bennett Approved for ...

Certificates of Insurance and the Coverage Issues That Go With Them

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Certificates of Insurance and the endorsements often requested with them cause many problems for insurance agents trying to help commercial clients. We will review the things to consider before issuing a certificate and discuss ways to avoid some of ...

Marriage, Kids, Money Assisted Living and Everything Between: Home and Auto Exposures for Life

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

This course looks at several common home and auto policy concerns which may escalate during certain times of the insured’s life cycle. Issues created by marriage (and its dissolution), having kids, making money, college, roommates, stuff in storage, ...

PC Pre-Licensing Review

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

This 3 day review is intended for those who are preparing to take the Maine Property & Casualty Producer Licensing Exam. We will spend the three days covering the Maine Law and all the topics included in the Maine licensing study guide. The ...

Personal & Commercial Lines Endorsements: Some Good, Some That Really Stink

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Explore many useful Personal lines and Commercial Lines endorsements that broaden your client’s coverage and provide you with a competitive advantage over others! Also, be able to spot and take action when “nasty” endorsements make their way ...

Covering Online Fraud & Employees Who Turn Out to be Crooks

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

This course discusses two of the coverages available under commercial crime policies, with a focus on the Insurance Services Office (ISO) Commercial Crime program. We will begin with a discussion of the difference between Discovery and Loss ...

Lurking: Surprises in the Contractors CGL Policy & Endorsements to Watch Out For

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

NEW in 2022! This course examines a variety of Commercial General Liability policy features and endorsements that are sometimes added. We will focus on the effect these features and endorsements have on a contractor’s insurance program. While ...

Adventures in Aging: Medicare & Other Retirement Healthcare Solutions

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

NEW in 2022! Medicare is coming (or for many, it’s already arrived!) Join veteran insurance educator Chris Amrhein as he shares his own adventures with Medicare and other healthcare solutions for seniors. He’ll discuss eligibility, ...

Agents E&O: Defenses & Preventions for the Insurance Professional

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Agents who focus on E&O loss prevention fortify their agency from potentially devastating claims while improving the customer experience. In this course, agents will discuss the importance of understanding their legal duty of care, the benefit ...

Why Good People Do Bad Things - A Deep Dive Into Agency Ethics

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Join agency principal and long-time insurance educator Terry Tadlock as he reviews the reasons why an agency’s leadership, culture and perception of ethical conduct often cause agency staff to make bad decisions with potentially devastating ...

Inflation and Personal Lines

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Personal lines insurance consumers know the pinch of inflation on seemingly all goods and services. What’s the impact on personal insurance rates and coverage? This course reviews several factors as to how inflation across other industries ...

52nd YAC Agent Company GOLF Outing

52nd YAC Agent Company GOLF Outing   Registration is for TEAMS of 4 - No Single Registrations 8:30am - Registration  9am - Shotgun start  Fundraising to benefit Mental Health Awareness Proceeds to be donated to NAMI Maine in memory of ...

Flood Insurance, FEMA & the NFIP

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

NEW IN 2022!  This course follows the general curriculum for flood insurance training as set forth by FEMA. Completion of this course will satisfy FEMA’s 3-hour Basic Flood Insurance Course requirement for agents to sell flood insurance. ...

ACSR #6 Commercial Property Insurance

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Gain the confidence to accurately and efficiently identify and assess commercial loss exposures. Course topics include an introduction to commercial property, causes of loss and coverage forms, business income insurance, and other commercial property ...

Cyber Coverage: Protecting Your Insureds From Hackers, Liars and Really Bad Bots

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The technology upon which today’s business depends creates new exposures for our insureds. We will examine the most common first and third-party exposures, including the laws concerning privacy and security of personal information and the effect they ...

Ethical Dilemmas in Insurance and the Responsibilities of Agents

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

This course begins with an overview of ethics and various approaches to ethical decision-making. We will discuss the responsibilities of the insurance producer to prospects and clients, insurance carriers, and to third parties. Throughout the ...

Claims That Will Convince Your Insured to Enhance Their Homeowners Coverages

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

To save a few bucks, consumers are quick to strip off valuable coverage from their homeowners policy and/or buy coverage that doesn’t match their exposure. This course will review several claims and coverage examples agents can use to talk ...

Homeowners Deep Dive: What You Need to Know About the Most Recent Forms

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

After many years in the making, the Insurance Services Office’s (ISO) latest edition of its Homeowners forms contain numerous features not seen in prior editions. Insurance pros who take this course will dive deep into the forms and gain ...

Adventures in Aging: Social Security & Other Retirement Income Solutions

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Retirement is coming (and for many has already arrived!) Join veteran insurance educator Chris Amrhein as he shares his own adventures with Social Security and other retirement income solutions for seniors. He’ll discuss eligibility, ...

Why Insurance to Value & Liability Limits are Always Wrong (And How to Fix Them)

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

This class takes an in depth look at insuring for the “worse case scenario” for both personal and commercial clients. A recent study indicates that 47% of your clients are at least 27% underinsured. After taking this class, I think you will ...

Mastering Business Income: Tools and Tips to Keep Insureds Flush

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Many insurance pros know it’s the (indirect) loss after the (direct) loss that kills the business. Unfortunately, many lack an understanding of Business Income and related coverages to the point where such may not even be offered to an insured! This ...

Planting the Seed: Agent Strategies to Get & Keep Agribusiness Insureds

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

NEW in 2022! In order to reduce the thought of insurance as a commodity, the agent MUST enhance the value they bring to the agribusiness insurance buyer. This course will review the risk management process as well as available coverage forms ...

Agents E&O: Duties, Best Practices, Operations Workflows & Certificates

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

NEW IN 2022!  Agents who focus on E&O loss prevention fortify their agency from potentially devastating claims while improving the customer experience. In this course, agents will learn best practices regarding agent’s duties, agency ...

ACSR #7 Commercial Liability Insurance

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Gain the skills and knowledge to recommend coverages that properly protect business owners from liability loss exposures. Course topics include legal liability, commercial general liability insurance, commercial liability endorsements, other liability ...

CRIS - Part 4 - Property Insurance for Contractors

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

This course examines the coverage provided by three types of property insurance policies: commercial property policies, builders risk policies, and contractors’ equipment policies. CECs: 7 P&C Instructor - Kym Martell, CRIS CEC's are given ...

CIC Personal Lines

Focus on the Property Casualty insurance industry, covering topics related to Personal Residential and Personal Auto, including policy coverages, limitations, and exclusions. Through the use of examples of Personal Umbrella or Excess Policies, you will ...

Employment Practices Liability - A Coverage No Business Can Afford to be Without

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

This course addresses many employment-related liability exposures faced by today’s employers: discrimination and harassment claims by employees and third parties, employee privacy concerns, retaliation claims, wage and hour claims and more. We ...

Certificates of Insurance and the Coverage Issues That Go With Them

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Certificates of Insurance and the endorsements often requested with them cause many problems for insurance agents trying to help commercial clients. We will review the things to consider before issuing a certificate and discuss ways to avoid some of ...

Get Your Financial House in Order

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

FREE To MEMBERS

Commercial Property: Recent Changes and Crucial Concepts

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

The Insurance Services Office’s (ISO) latest additions to its Commercial Property forms contain numerous features not seen in prior editions. Insurance pros who take this course will dive deep into the forms and gain expertise on many features ...

Agents E&O: Defenses & Preventions for the Insurance Professional

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Agents who focus on E&O loss prevention fortify their agency from potentially devastating claims while improving the customer experience. In this course, agents will discuss the importance of understanding their legal duty of care, the benefit ...

Flood Insurance, FEMA & the NFIP

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

NEW IN 2022!  This course follows the general curriculum for flood insurance training as set forth by FEMA. Completion of this course will satisfy FEMA’s 3-hour Basic Flood Insurance Course requirement for agents to sell flood insurance. ...

Marriage, Kids, Money Assisted Living and Everything Between: Home and Auto Exposures for Life

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

This course looks at several common home and auto policy concerns which may escalate during certain times of the insured’s life cycle. Issues created by marriage (and its dissolution), having kids, making money, college, roommates, stuff in storage, ...

Adventures in Aging: Medicare & Other Retirement Healthcare Solutions

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

NEW in 2022! Medicare is coming (or for many, it’s already arrived!) Join veteran insurance educator Chris Amrhein as he shares his own adventures with Medicare and other healthcare solutions for seniors. He’ll discuss eligibility, ...

MLIS - Fiduciary Liability Exposures & Insurance Coverage

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) created certain fiduciary liability exposures for benefit plans governed by ERISA. This course describes the basic fiduciary duties set forth by ERISA, analyzes claim exposures that can arise from ...

2 Day Personal Lines Analysis

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

This two-day course takes a deeper look at the coverage parts of necessary personal lines insurance forms. The course starts with the 2011 edition of the homeowners' form and works its way through personal lines floaters, dwelling fire forms, ...

CIC: Insurance Company Operations

Learn strategic decision-making strategies for the purpose of satisfying regulatory requirements, meeting compliance standards, product development, underwriting, distributing and marketing, processing claims, and other vital company functions. ...

ACSR #8 Commercial Automobile Insurance

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Develop the skills to recommend coverages that protect business owners from commercial auto loss exposures. Course topics include commercial auto loss exposures and the business auto coverage form, business auto coverage endorsements and rating, and ...

Claims That Will Convince Your Insured to Enhance Their Homeowners Coverages

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

To save a few bucks, consumers are quick to strip off valuable coverage from their homeowners policy and/or buy coverage that doesn’t match their exposure. This course will review several claims and coverage examples agents can use to talk ...

Covering Online Fraud & Employees Who Turn Out to be Crooks

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

This course discusses two of the coverages available under commercial crime policies, with a focus on the Insurance Services Office (ISO) Commercial Crime program. We will begin with a discussion of the difference between Discovery and Loss ...

MLIS - Understanding D&O Exposures

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Understanding the legal liability exposures faced by directors and officers can be daunting. This course addresses the common law and statutory exposures, the situations that can give rise to claims, the legal defenses available when a claim is made, ...

Bots, Crypto, Weed and Other Risks You Never Imagined Insuring (But Here We Are)

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Big data is watching your every move. Virtual currencies are powering transactions globally. Cars are driving themselves, stuff orbiting the earth can actually hurt you, genetically modified animals and marijuana are everywhere. This ...

Lurking: Surprises in the Contractors CGL Policy & Endorsements to Watch Out For

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

NEW in 2022! This course examines a variety of Commercial General Liability policy features and endorsements that are sometimes added. We will focus on the effect these features and endorsements have on a contractor’s insurance program. While ...

Adventures in Aging: Social Security & Other Retirement Income Solutions

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Retirement is coming (and for many has already arrived!) Join veteran insurance educator Chris Amrhein as he shares his own adventures with Social Security and other retirement income solutions for seniors. He’ll discuss eligibility, ...

Why Good People Do Bad Things - A Deep Dive Into Agency Ethics

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Join agency principal and long-time insurance educator Terry Tadlock as he reviews the reasons why an agency’s leadership, culture and perception of ethical conduct often cause agency staff to make bad decisions with potentially devastating ...

Homeowners Deep Dive: What You Need to Know About the Most Recent Forms

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

After many years in the making, the Insurance Services Office’s (ISO) latest edition of its Homeowners forms contain numerous features not seen in prior editions. Insurance pros who take this course will dive deep into the forms and gain ...

Agents E&O: Duties, Best Practices, Operations Workflows & Certificates

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

NEW IN 2022!  Agents who focus on E&O loss prevention fortify their agency from potentially devastating claims while improving the customer experience. In this course, agents will learn best practices regarding agent’s duties, agency ...

Growing Good Insurance: Property & Liability Endorsements to Fortify Farm Risks

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

This presentation will concentrate on the Insurance Services Office (ISO) Farm Property and Liability Coverage Forms and vital endorsements necessary for most clients involved in an agribusiness operation. Presented by Sam Bennett Approved for ...

ACSR #9 Commercial Lines Related Coverages

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Increase your value to your agency and producers with a strong understanding of commercial lines coverages. Course topics include workers compensation and employers liability insurance, business owners policies, commercial crime insurance, surety ...

Flood Insurance, FEMA & the NFIP

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

NEW IN 2022!  This course follows the general curriculum for flood insurance training as set forth by FEMA. Completion of this course will satisfy FEMA’s 3-hour Basic Flood Insurance Course requirement for agents to sell flood insurance. ...

Inflation and Personal Lines

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Personal lines insurance consumers know the pinch of inflation on seemingly all goods and services. What’s the impact on personal insurance rates and coverage? This course reviews several factors as to how inflation across other industries ...

Ethical Dilemmas in Insurance and the Responsibilities of Agents

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

This course begins with an overview of ethics and various approaches to ethical decision-making. We will discuss the responsibilities of the insurance producer to prospects and clients, insurance carriers, and to third parties. Throughout the ...

Marriage, Kids, Money Assisted Living and Everything Between: Home and Auto Exposures for Life

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

This course looks at several common home and auto policy concerns which may escalate during certain times of the insured’s life cycle. Issues created by marriage (and its dissolution), having kids, making money, college, roommates, stuff in storage, ...

Adventures in Aging: Medicare & Other Retirement Healthcare Solutions

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

NEW in 2022! Medicare is coming (or for many, it’s already arrived!) Join veteran insurance educator Chris Amrhein as he shares his own adventures with Medicare and other healthcare solutions for seniors. He’ll discuss eligibility, ...

CRIS - Part 5 - Workers Compensation for Contractors

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

This course begins with an introduction to workers compensation, including who is covered and under what circumstances and the various parts of the policy are explained in detail. CECs: 7 P&C Instructor - Kym Martell, CRIS CEC's are given for ...

Commercial Property: Recent Changes and Crucial Concepts

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Insurance Services Office’s (ISO) latest additions to its Commercial Property forms contain numerous features not seen in prior editions. Insurance pros who take this course will dive deep into the forms and gain expertise on many features ...

Mastering Business Income: Tools and Tips to Keep Insureds Flush

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Many insurance pros know it’s the (indirect) loss after the (direct) loss that kills the business. Unfortunately, many lack an understanding of Business Income and related coverages to the point where such may not even be offered to an insured! This ...

CIC James K Ruble Graduate Seminar

Ruble In-Person  The Ruble Graduate Seminars provide advanced and diverse curricula and focus on current property and casualty issues and solutions, life and health exposures, risk management and insurance alternatives, as well as specific ...

Cyber Coverage: Protecting Your Insureds From Hackers, Liars and Really Bad Bots

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

The technology upon which today’s business depends creates new exposures for our insureds. We will examine the most common first and third-party exposures, including the laws concerning privacy and security of personal information and the effect they ...

Leadership & Liability: Insuring Executive Risk

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Sometimes referred to as Management Liability coverages, this class will explore the importance of protecting your executives as they operate at home and around the world. Some of the policies to be analyzed include Directors & Officers ...

Agents E&O: Defenses & Preventions for the Insurance Professional

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Agents who focus on E&O loss prevention fortify their agency from potentially devastating claims while improving the customer experience. In this course, agents will discuss the importance of understanding their legal duty of care, the benefit ...

Disaster & Business Continuity Planning - CPIA Reaccreditation Course

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Objective: During this program, participants are encouraged to focus on factors effecting disaster and business continuity planning. Areas discussed include types of disasters, key planning elements, disaster team makeup, insurance ...

Homeowners Deep Dive: What You Need to Know About the Most Recent Forms

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

After many years in the making, the Insurance Services Office’s (ISO) latest edition of its Homeowners forms contain numerous features not seen in prior editions. Insurance pros who take this course will dive deep into the forms and gain ...

Planting the Seed: Agent Strategies to Get & Keep Agribusiness Insureds

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

NEW in 2022! In order to reduce the thought of insurance as a commodity, the agent MUST enhance the value they bring to the agribusiness insurance buyer. This course will review the risk management process as well as available coverage forms ...

MLIS - How to Insure D&O Liabilities

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance is insurance coverage intended to protect individuals from personal losses if they are sued as a result of serving as a director or an officer of a business or other type of organization. Directors and ...

Claims That Will Convince Your Insured to Enhance Their Homeowners Coverages

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

To save a few bucks, consumers are quick to strip off valuable coverage from their homeowners policy and/or buy coverage that doesn’t match their exposure. This course will review several claims and coverage examples agents can use to talk ...

Agents E&O: Duties, Best Practices, Operations Workflows & Certificates

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

NEW IN 2022!  Agents who focus on E&O loss prevention fortify their agency from potentially devastating claims while improving the customer experience. In this course, agents will learn best practices regarding agent’s duties, agency ...

All Things Ethics: Agent Obligations, Standards, Authority & More

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

This course uses a variety of scenarios to assist agents in ethical decision making. We will review several examples of agent obligations to insureds, carriers and others. We will discuss agency standards with regards to ethics, agent authority as ...

Have a Plan - Perpetuating Your Agency

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

FREE To MEMBERS

Certificates of Insurance and the Coverage Issues That Go With Them

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Certificates of Insurance and the endorsements often requested with them cause many problems for insurance agents trying to help commercial clients. We will review the things to consider before issuing a certificate and discuss ways to avoid some of ...

Adventures in Aging: Social Security & Other Retirement Income Solutions

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Retirement is coming (and for many has already arrived!) Join veteran insurance educator Chris Amrhein as he shares his own adventures with Social Security and other retirement income solutions for seniors. He’ll discuss eligibility, ...