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“Looks like the perfect place for an insurance school.”
-Juan Ponce de León, April 2nd, 1513 (scroll to the “F5” for the story)
Wait…what the #^&* just happened?! An inquiry that, with regard to homeowners or personal auto insurance, no one (especially the insured’s agent!) wants to hear. Join personal lines guru Scott “the guy-o from Ohio” Treen this Thursday morning from 9a – 12p Eastern for “Wait…What The #^&* Just Happened?!” Fourteen Personal Lines Issues To Know Before It’s Too Late. This Webinar dives deep into common personal lines policies to pull out fourteen frequently misunderstood coverage issues. Insurance pros who attend this Webinar will gain valuable insight into these issues, how they could create a problem at claim time and strategies to ensure they don’t.
Satisfy your 4-Hour Law & Ethics Update requirement with us: Learn the latest happenings with FL rules/regs/laws and fulfill your 4-Hour L&E Update requirement. Check out the schedule below and register online today!
This week’s CE Webinars (all times Eastern. Keep scrolling to see the full month schedule):
- TUES, 4/11, 9a – 12p - Commercial Property: Recent Changes And Crucial Concepts. Legendary Florida Instructor David “Special Sauce” Thompson returns with the latest on all-things commercial property insurance.
- TUES, 4/11, 1 – 4p - Planting The Seed: Agent Strategies To Get And Keep Agribusiness Insureds. Our farm guru Sam “Dad Jokes Ain’t Bad Jokes” Bennett is back with tons of tips for agents currently or interested in working with agribusiness insureds.\
- WED, 4/12, 9a – 12p – Covering Online Fraud And Employees Who Turn Out To Be Crooks. Commercial lines connoisseur Cathy “On a Mission” Trischan is in the hump-day-hotseat to discuss how agents play a role in helping commercial insureds protect their businesses from online scams and how to sniff out/expose the stinkers looking to defraud them from inside and out.
- WED, 4/12, 2 – 3p - An Hour With Cathy: Certificates Of Insurance - Headaches & Remedies. Cathy returns for an awesome hour on best practices regarding certificates.
- THURS, 4/13, 9a – 12p - “Wait…What The #^&* Just Happened?!” Fourteen Personal Lines Issues To Know Before It’s Too Late. Issues discussed include common gaps found in homeowners and personal auto policies.
It’s a fine week to be at the FISCE and we’re humbled to share it with you. Remember, if you’re an unapologetic lover of the Sunshine State keep scrolling for this week’s F5 (“Fascinating Factoid For Fanatical Floridians”.)
Until the next round…cheers!
Kevin “Has Also Run Aground Near St. Augustine” Amrhein, CIC, CBIA
Florida Insurance School Continuing Education (FISCE)
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THE “F5” (FASCINATING FACTOID FOR FANATICAL FLORIDIANS) –
510 years ago this month a guy and his crew ran their ships aground on Florida’s east coast and the rest, as they say, is history.
Here’s the story as told by history.com:
April 2nd, 1513: Near present-day St. Augustine, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on the Florida coast, and claims the territory for the Spanish crown.
Native Americans inhabited the area that became known as Florida for thousands of years before any European contact. Although other European navigators may have sighted the Florida peninsula before, Ponce de León is credited with the first recorded landing and the first detailed exploration of the Florida coast. The Spanish explorer was searching for the “Fountain of Youth,” a fabled water source that was said to bring eternal youth. Ponce de León named the peninsula he believed to be an island “La Florida” because his discovery came during the time of the Easter feast, or Pascua Florida.
In 1521, he returned to Florida in an effort to establish a Spanish colony. However, hostile Native Americans attacked his expedition soon after landing, and the party retreated to Cuba, where Ponce de León died from a mortal wound suffered during the battle. Successful Spanish colonization of the peninsula finally began at St. Augustine in 1565, and in 1819 the territory passed into U.S. control under the terms of the Florida Purchase Treaty between Spain and the United States.
