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If you teach 6-12, check out this FREE masters course.

Ohio Dominican University provides educators with relevant, accredited courses to help them stay current with best teaching practices while renewing their teaching licenses. ODU is offering Teaching Insurance, an online, two-credit, graduate-level course for 6-12 grade teachers in Ohio designed to provide teachers with the knowledge and proficiency needed to effectively educate students on topics including basic property and casualty insurance principles.

We’re offering FULL SCHOLARSHIPS ($500) for the course to educators who teach or plan to teach insurance topics. If awarded a scholarship, you will be reimbursed the course fee upon successful completion.

REGISTER for the course: ohiodominican.edu/teachinginsurance
APPLY for a scholarship: ohioinsurance.org/teaching-insurance

Course date: January 14 - March 31, 2019. Participants can complete the 10-module course as quickly as preferred, but must register at least six weeks before the end of the course. Registration & scholarship application deadline: January 7, 2019

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Beta Omega students…apply by 10/15!

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Columbus CPCU September Meeting - Town Hall The theme of this meeting is all about you, our fellow members. For title sake, let’s call the style of the September meeting a Town Hall. It is your chance to be heard, to express your opinion, to tell us how you want to derive value from your Chapter membership and to be able to demonstrate your...

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Nationwide aims to limit losses from Calif. fires - The Columbus Dispatch, 2018-08-16 A home burns in a wildfire near Finley, Calif., in July. Nationwide Insurance is giving California homeowners instructions on how to reduce fire risk. Those who don’t comply could lose their coverage. [NOAH BERGER/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO]

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Know someone thinking about, or working on, their CPCU designation? Sign up is now available for a *FREE* class for CPCU 500: Foundations of Risk Management and Insurance class.

The 2019 CPCU Annual Conferment ceremony is in New Orleans, and you won't want to miss it!

Start Date: Tuesday July 17, 2018
Class Time: Tuesdays, 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Course Length: Six weeks
Location: Online via WebEx
Cost: FREE

Topics include:
-Introduction to risk management
-Risk assessment
-Risk control
-Risk financing
-Insurance as a risk management technique
-Insurance policy analysis
-Common policy concepts
-Big data analytics

Instructor: Rick Walsh, ITP, CIC, CPCU, ANFI, CRIS, SCLA

To register, email Alex Moorehead, director of education, CPCU, at [email protected] or contact your Columbus CPCU Chapter.

*Details will be emailed to participants three weeks prior to the first class.

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Lloyd's Ends Ties with NRA Insurance Programs Lloyd's of London has directed its underwriters to terminate any insurance programs they have with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and to not enter into any new ones. "The Lloyd's Corporation has given very careful consideration as to whether syndicates at Lloyd's should continue to insure prog...

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