Educating Professionals
David Bell, chief operating and administrative officer of Allied World Assurance, who also serves as the 2009 president of the Professional Liability Underwriters Society (PLUS), says that while PLUS has always brought education opportunities to its members, in 2009 the organization will expand those opportunities to younger professionals and students. Through newly completed PLUS education modules the organization hopes to better groom the skills of younger and newer professional liability staff in the insurance industry as well as those of undergraduate students around the country.
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