“Don’t try to explain it, just bow your head. Breathe in, breathe out, move on.” - Jimmy Buffett’s lyrical advice for hurricane victims (here’s a link to the song. Have tissues ready.)
To our neighbors recovering from horrible hurricanes Helene and Milton: we hope you and yours are back up and running soon. Our administration team (all proud Floridians) send our best – it’s a pleasure to serve you.
Before getting on with this edition of your favorite newsletter here are two important reminders:
- If you are unable to attend any FISCE Webinar for which you registered (due to a storm or any other reason) you do not lose your money. Simply shoot us an email and we’ll reschedule you at your convenience.
- Florida CFO Patronis recently announced that all licensees who have a CE deadline occurring in October, November, or December of 2024 automatically receive a 60-day extension. A copy of the CFO’s directive regarding the extension (as well as other changes) is available here.
At the FISCE the show must go on. We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming.
In this edition: CE requirements, featured Webinar this week, need 4-hour update?, weekly highlights, full OCT schedule, in the beginning there was an airbase (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: Bots, Crypto, Weed and Other Risks You Never Imagined Insuring (But Here We Are), THURS, 10/17, 1 – 4p
Dawn of a new age or end of the world? If you’re among the few who have not attended a previous offering of this week’s featured Webinar we hope this is your week to experience what is arguably the most mind-blowing CE program ever conceived in the history of mankind.
In need of your 4-hour Law & Ethics Update? Our schedule is loaded with Law & Ethics Update Webinars. 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):
- THURS, 10/17, 9a – 12p - Stinkin Rich, Insurance Poor: P&C Coverage Challenges for High-Net-Worth Individuals. Instructor Kym “Got Fat Stacks (of policies)” Martell returns to discuss several P&C exposures which pose challenges when insuring high-net-worth individuals.
- THURS, 10/17, 1 – 4p - Bots, Crypto, Weed and Other Risks You Never Imagined Insuring (But Here We Are). It’s our featured Webinar this week for a reason! See description above.
- SATURDAY, 10/19, 9a – 12p – Claims That Will Convince Your Insured to Enhance Their Homeowners Coverage. Instructor Nicole “Human Energy Drink” Broch is back to review several claims and coverage examples agents can use to talk their insureds through the importance of adequate homeowners coverage and endorsements to make the policy as broad as possible.
- SATURDAY, 10/19, 9a – 1p – For Property & Casualty Licensees in 2024: 4-Hour Law & Ethics Update. Join instructor Dave “Special Sauce” Thompson for the latest happenings in legislation, rules, regs and other issues facing Florida’s insurance pros.
- SATURDAY, 10/19, 1 – 2p - An Hour with Nicole: Everything You Need to Know About Insuring Work-From-Home. Nicole returns with many takes and tips on insuring WFH exposures.
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 “Insurance Rich, Stinkin Poor” Amrhein, CIC, CBIA
Florida Insurance School Continuing Education (FISCE)
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THE “F5” (FASCINATING FACTOID FOR FANATICAL FLORIDIANS) –
Something in the sand? From heroes literally saving the world to thousands of starry-eyed university students, this smattering of land in Boca Raton oozes education.
Per Florida Atlantic University’s website: From Airbase to Campus. In the beginning, there was an airbase – the Boca Raton Army Air Field, to be exact. This facility, one of the few radar training schools operated by the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, opened in October 1942 in the sleepy coastal resort town of Boca Raton. The base, which eventually covered more than 5,800 acres, did its part to help win the war, teaching the relatively new art of radar operation to thousands of airmen, including those who were aboard the Enola Gay on its fateful run to Hiroshima in 1945. By the 1950s, however, the base had outlived its usefulness; the radar training school it once housed had moved to Biloxi, Mississippi, and weeds grew tall around the landing strips that once saw a steady stream of arriving and departing B-17 and B-29 bombers. The war was over, and America was facing new challenges, including the imminent coming of age of the first wave of Baby Boomers. Members of the most economically privileged generation in U.S. history, they were going to seek higher education in record numbers, and Florida’s colleges and universities were in no way prepared for the onslaught.
To read the rest of FAU’s fascinating history and timeline click here.