“Fiddlesticks! I’ve forgotten to set down my cigar and now it’s utter mush.”
- Winston Churchill after flopping into the Florida ocean (scroll to the F5 for the story)
Welcome to another edition of the FISCE’s Almost Famous Weekly Newsletter: our 4-minute take on your CE compliance and how together we can make you the most successful insurance pro in the building.
In this edition:
- CE requirements
- Reminders/announcements
- This week’s Webinar highlights and upcoming schedule
- One for you my fellow FL history geek (aka the “F5”): Englishman flops in Pompano
Let’s do this.
“What in the actual %^&* are my CE requirements?!” Click here for our CE Compliance page and get your answers.
REMINDERS/ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Blow it out. Your compliance deadline may come later this summer or in the fall but why not blow it out now? Late summer and fall in Florida are for stressing about the weather and college football, not CE compliance. Wanna’ get way ahead? Remember that it’s possible extra hours you earn during the current compliance period will roll over to the next one. For more info on CE check our compliance page here.
- Smooth sailing. Four hours is a LONG time. Why not spend it with folks you know will make it easy AND teach you some useful stuff in the process? (HINT: that’s us.) Our schedule is packed with Webinars that fulfill the 4-hour requirement for P&C licensees, Life/Health licensees, and All-Lines Claims Adjuster licensees. Keep scrolling to see the schedule.
- We’re into the group thing. Learn together as a team. Show your staff you care about their education. Add a CE component to your organization’s conference. These are just a few reasons we would love to chat with you about our group training options. Scroll down for the details.
THIS WEEK’S WEBINAR HIGHLIGHTS
Featured Webinar: An Hour with Patrick: Reinsurance: How It Works & Why It Matters, THURS, 7/17, 11a – 12p Eastern
What’ll it cost, man. What’ll it cost? Reinsurance costs always figure into the cost of providing insurance to the consumer but most of the time that’s in the background. Recently, reinsurance has figured prominently in the insurance marketplace because of a rise in reinsurance premiums and a reduction in reinsurance availability. Instructor/Florida Man Patrick “Podcast Great” Wraight returns to discuss what reinsurance is, why companies need it, and what that means to the insurance market as a whole.
This Week’s Schedule/Highlights (all times Eastern. Keep scrolling to see the full month schedule.)
- MON, 7/14, 12 – 4p - For All-Lines Claims Adjuster Licensees in 2025: 4-Hour Law & Ethics Update. Adjuster licensee friends: join yours truly to learn the latest happenings and we’ll knock out your 4-hour course requirement together.
- MON, 7/14, 12 – 4p - For Life & Health Licensees in 2025: 4-Hour Law & Ethics Update. Life/Health licensee friends: this one’s for you! Join Karin “I’ll Ask An Alaskan” Woofter to get up to speed on all-things life/health/financial and knock out your 4-hour course requirement.
- TUES, 7/15, 9a – 12p - Certificates, Contractors, and You: Fights, Coverage Issues, Best Practices. Contractor insureds and their agents are all-too-familiar with issues regarding Certificates of Insurance as well as endorsements often requested with them. Join FISCE commercial lines guru Cathy “On a Mission” Trischan and review many considerations when issuing a certificate and discuss ways to avoid some of the common problems and errors. Issues regarding Additional Insureds, Waivers of Subrogation and other requests frequently made of agents will be discussed.
- TUES, 7/15, 1 – 4p - Reasons Personal Lines are Broken (and What to Do About It). Ride-sharing, drones, home rental, furnished autos, remote work and other issues testing common personal lines policies are reviewed in this Webinar. Taught by legendary instructor Terry “Everyone’s Insurance Dad” Tadlock, agents who attend will learn the depth of exposures and the best practices of how to address them with insureds.
- THURS, 7/17, 11a -12p - An Hour with Patrick: Reinsurance: How It Works & Why It Matters. Our featured Webinar this week! See description above.
Finally, if you’re an unapologetic lover of all-things Florida keep scrolling to experience this week’s “F5”: a tasty knowledge nugget about everyone’s favorite state.
Until the next round…cheers!
Kevin “Sailed Once, Wasn’t Smooth” Amrhein, CIC, CBIA
Florida Insurance School Continuing Education (FISCE)
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THE “F5” (FASCINATING FACTOID FOR FANATICAL FLORIDIANS) –
It’s January, 1942 and you’re a cartoonist for the Miami Daily News. You’ve been tipped off to what has become the worst kept secret in town: Winston Churchill - British Prime Minister and key figure in the currently raging world war - is in Pompano.
He and his entourage are crashing at a Hillsboro Beach (back then the whole area was commonly referred to as Pompano) bungalow provided by US Secretary of State Edward Stettinius. He arrived from Washington for a few days of rest after meeting with Roosevelt to discuss war strategy and sign the UN Charter.
Hearing he’s been spotted flopping around in the surf, you scribble out a cartoon which would run in the paper on January 5th. It showed two overweight middle-aged men flopped on a beach and was captioned “Hard work is the thing that will win this war — we must keep at it night and day.”
Your work, referred to by the man himself as a “cutting”, prompted Churchill to send a clipping to Roosevelt along with the following message on January 6th:
Dear Mr. President,
We have been greeted on arrival by this cutting from the local paper. This shows that all the trouble you took about secrecy has been in vain. Tommy [referring to Detective Tommy Thompson who traveled to FL with him] is plainly identifiable.
Yours sincerely,
[signed] Winston S. Churchill