“Unstable swampland in every direction for miles and nearly constant inclement weather so naturally we should build a huge-a#s airport here.” -Planners of the defunct Everglades Jetport (scroll to the F5 for details)
In this edition: CE requirements, featured Webinar this week, 4-hour Annuity Training course, 4-hour Law & Ethics Update Webinars, weekly highlights, July/August schedule, random runway in the swamp (this week’s F5). Let’s do it.
“Just what in the actual %^&* are my CE requirements?!” Click here for our CE Compliance page and get your answers.
Featured Webinar This Week: Insuring Vehicles, Equipment and Other Stuff That Moves - Personal & Commercial Lines, TUES, 7/30, 1 – 4p Eastern
It likes to move it, move it… and then break things/hurt people. Join instructor Sam “Dad Jokes Ain’t Bad Jokes” Bennett for a tractor full of educating (and hilarious) coverage takes on vehicles, equipment and other stuff that moves in the Homeowner Policy, Personal Auto Policy, Commercial General Liability Coverage Form and Business Auto Coverage Form.
Need 4-Hour “Best Interest” Annuity Training? We’ve added to our schedule several offerings of a 4-hour annuity training course that 1) is eligible for 4 hours of elective CE credits, and 2) satisfies the training course requirement as described in Florida Statute 627.4554(6) for agents who sell or are considering selling annuities. To determine if you are required to take a 4-hour annuity training course, review Florida Statute 627.4554(6) and/or contact your appointing insurer.
Need your 4-hour Law & Ethics Update requirement? Learn the latest happenings with FL rules/regs/laws and fulfill your 4-Hour L&E Update requirement with us. We have Webinars that fulfill the requirement for P&C licensees, Life/Health licensees, and All-Lines Claims Adjuster licensees. Keep scrolling to see the schedule.
CE Webinars This Week (all times Eastern. Keep scrolling to see the full month schedule):
- TUES, 7/30, 1 – 4p - Insuring Vehicles, Equipment and Other Stuff That Moves - Personal & Commercial Lines. It’s our featured Webinar this week for a reason! See description above.
- WED, 7/31, 9a – 1p - For Property & Casualty Licensees in 2024: 4-Hour Law & Ethics Update. Join veteran Florida Insurance geek Dave “Special Sauce” Thompson for the latest happenings on rules, regs, market conditions, and how to smoke a Boston Butt so it doesn’t taste like a wooden shoe.
- WED, 7/31, 2 – 3p - An Hour with Dave: What Everyone Must Know About Flood. Did we mention he’s a flood guru? Dave returns for an hour of discussion on several issues and updates regarding flood insurance and the National Flood Insurance Program.
- THURS, 8/1, 1 – 4p - Transportation Insurance: A Non-Standard Business Exposure! Join instructor “Rockin’ Robin” Federici for information on the “general” and “usual” policy provisions found in many non-standard transportation policies including covered property interests, excluded property, valuations, coinsurance, subrogation and coverage territories.
- SATURDAY, 8/3, 9a – 12p - Homeowners Deep-Dive: What You Need to Know About the Most Recent Forms. Dave returns with a dive deep into the homeowners forms and shares expertise on many features including some that benefit the insured and some that don’t.
- SATURDAY, 8/3, 9a – 1p - For Life & Health Licensees in 2024: 4-Hour Law & Ethics Update. Join legendary Florida instructor Karin “I’ll Ask An Alaskan” Woofter for the latest happenings in the Life/Health/Financial space.
- SATURDAY, 8/3, 1 – 2p - An Hour with Dave: All-Things Ordinance or Law (Personal and Commercial). Dave is back to review examples of ordinances and laws regarding damaged structures, the policy exclusions for compliance exposures as well as methods to insure them.
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 “Likes to Move It Move It” Amrhein, CIC, CBIA
Florida Insurance School Continuing Education (FISCE)
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THE “F5” (FASCINATING FACTOID FOR FANATICAL FLORIDIANS) –
Drive the Tamiami Trail and there’s so much to see! Alligators. Birds. Cypress trees. A solitary huge-a#s airstrip that was supposed to be a part of the world’s largest airport.
Wait…what?
The Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport is 36 miles west of downtown Miami near the border of Dade and Collier counties and is all that remains of what would have been the largest airport in the world. Begun in 1968 as the Everglades Jetport (also known as Big Cypress Jetport or Big Cypress Swamp Jetport), the airport was planned to be the largest airport in the world, covering 39 square miles with six runways, and connected to both central Miami and the Gulf of Mexico by an expressway and monorail line. The airport would have been five times the size of JFK Airport in New York. At the time, the Boeing 2707 was under development and it was anticipated that supersonic aircraft would dominate long-haul air transportation. South Florida was viewed as an ideal location for an intercontinental SST hub due to the limitation that such aircraft would have to fly over water. Because of environmental concerns and the cancellation of the 2707 program, construction was halted in 1970 after the completion of just one 10,500' runway. The remaining land became the Big Cypress National Reserve.