“We’re team ‘Dawn.’ If we’re wrong everyone is screwed.” - referring to this week’s featured Webinar (see description below)
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:
- Your CE requirements
- Reminders/announcements: Webinars THIS Saturday
- This week’s Webinar highlights and upcoming schedule
- One for you my fellow FL fanatic (aka the “F5”): better respect Robert, y’all
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
- SATURDAY Webinars this week. Join many of your fellow “too busy for work-week-Webinars” peers this Saturday. Keep scrolling to see the schedule.
- Play in this sandbox. There’s a lot of cool stuff you can do from our CE Compliance page. For example: conduct a licensee search on yourself (overview of your CE requirements, appointments, etc.), connect to your FL Department of Financial Services (DFS) licensee profile (see your CE transcript, required hours, edit contact info, etc.), contact DFS, and see vital info regarding CE compliance.
- Holiday shopping. Interested in purchasing access to CE hours in bulk for your team? Contact us for information regarding bulk-pricing.
- FISCE = home of the NO COST transfer. Regardless of the reason, if you register for a Webinar and can’t attend you do not lose your money. At the FISCE transfers are free and can be initiated before or after your missed Webinar.
THIS WEEK’S WEBINAR HIGHLIGHTS
Featured Webinar: Dawn of New Age or End of the World? Emerging Risks That Make You Wonder, THURS, 10/23, 1 – 4p Eastern
We’re team “Dawn.” Incomprehensible advancements in technology, regulatory changes, and many other factors are fueling new and rapidly-evolving risks for agents and insureds to address. Insurance pros who attend this course with dynamo instructor Steve “He Ain’t” Lyon will better understand risks presented by electric vehicles, alternative energy systems, artificial intelligence, supply chain issues, parametric insurance, virtual currencies, pollutants, and many other issues.
This Week’s Schedule/Highlights (all times Eastern. Keep scrolling to see the full month schedule.)
- MON, 10/20, 12 – 4p – For All-Lines Claims Adjuster Licensees in 2025: 4-Hour Law & Ethics Update. Adjuster licensee friends: join yours truly and we’ll knock out your required Law & Ethics Update requirement together.
- MON, 10/20, 12 – 4p - For Life & Health Licensees in 2025: 4-Hour Law & Ethics Update. Life & Health licensee friends: join legendary instructor Karin “I’ll Ask an Alaskan” Woofter and she’ll knock out your Law & Ethics Update requirement with you!
- TUES, 10/21, 9 – 11a - CGL Endorsements That Will Break Your Policy. FISCE commercial lines guru Cathy “On a Mission” Trischan discusses endorsements that can severely restrict coverage under the Commercial General Liability (CGL) Policy. She’ll review several ISO endorsements, show examples of non-standard endorsements often used by insurers and discuss effects the endorsement(s) has on the coverage that would otherwise have been afforded by the CGL policy.
- TUES, 10/21, 2 – 3p - An Hour with Cathy: I Pay What? How Commercial Policy Deductibles Work. Cathy is back to review property deductibles, including a discussion of flat, percentage, and catastrophe deductibles as well as deductible buyback policies. She’ll discuss the different types of general liability deductibles that may apply as well as how the self-insured retention in an Umbrella policy functions. Lastly, she’ll address the application of deductibles for auto physical damage coverages.
- WED, 10/22, 9a – 1p - For Property & Casualty Licensees in 2025: 4-Hour Law & Ethics Update. P&C licensee friends: Florida Man Dave “Special Sauce” Thompson is back and will bring you up to speed on the latest happenings.
- WED, 10/22, 2 – 3p - An Hour with Dave: Conquering Condo Concerns. After a short break from his morning Webinar (our guess is he fired up the smoker) Dave returns with a quick but deep dive into all-things condo.
- THURS, 10/23, 9 – 11a - Just Use Mine: Home, Vehicle and Other Sharing Exposures Insurance Doesn’t Like. Vehicles, houses, garage space, swimming pools, scooters and many other exposures stemming from the shared economy require special attention from an insurance standpoint. Insurance pros who take this course with Dave will better understand the breadth of sharing exposures, how they’re addressed in common insurance policies, and how to obtain adequate coverage.
- THURS, 10/23, 1 – 4p - Dawn of New Age or End of the World? Emerging Risks That Make You Wonder. Our featured Webinar this week! See description above.
- SATURDAY, 10/25, 9a – 12p – Homeowners Endorsements Insureds Don't Want (But Do Need). To save a buck, consumers are quick to strip off coverage and/or buy coverage that doesn’t match their exposure. Join instructor Nicole “WTH’s Decaf?” Broch as she provides many examples and risks insurance pros can use to talk insureds through coverage that is best for their policy and how to get it in the most affordable way possible. Discussion includes reference to many endorsements - some common, some not – insureds should consider.
- SATURDAY, 10/25, 9a – 1p – For Property & Casualty Licensees in 2025: 4-Hour Law & Ethics Update. Couldn’t make the work-week offering? No worries – we’re doing it all over again Saturday.
- SATURDAY, 10/25, 9a – 1p – For Life & Health Licensees in 2025: 4-Hour Law & Ethics Update. Couldn’t make the work-week offering? No worries – we’re doing this one all over again on Saturday, too.
- SATURDAY, 10/25, 1 – 2p - An Hour with Patrick: Reinsurance: How It Works & Why It Matters. 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. Join Patrick “Podcast Great” Wraight for this Webinar designed to help us to understand what reinsurance is, why companies need it, and what that means to the insurance market as a whole.
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 “It Wasn’t Me, Robert” Amrhein, CIC, CBIA
Florida Insurance School Continuing Education (FISCE)
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THE “F5” (FASCINATING FACTOID FOR FANATICAL FLORIDIANS) –
In celebration of October the F5 section will feature stories about the Sunshine State’s most haunted places/things. Enjoy!
Robert the Doll, Fort East Martello Museum, Key West
Stories of the misfortune bestowed on those who disrespect Robert implore me to choose my words carefully.
Robert has called the museum home since 1994 and is considered by some as the world’s most terrifying doll. In addition to the frights you’d expect from a haunted doll (e.g. changing facial expressions, giggling, etc.) some believe he is responsible for causing car accidents, broken bones, job loss, divorce and other miseries upon those who are disrespectful towards him, his caretakers, or other children. He’s received thousands of letters, gifts, candy, and bags of weed (yep – it’s true) from people hoping to make amends after experiencing personal tragedies which they believe he orchestrated upon them.
Have you ever visited the museum and seen the legend for yourself? If so, were you respectful? Or did little “Bobby Bad-A#s” fire some sick juju your way?