The Wholesales & Specialty Insurance Association's U40 group for young professionals recently sponsored a timely and topical panel discussion that illuminated the challenges and successes of the insurance industry's diversity and inclusion initiatives. The Wholesales & Specialty Insurance Association's U40 group for young professionals recently sponsored a timely and topical panel discussion that illuminated the challenges and successes of the insurance industry's diversity and inclusion initiatives.

The event was part of WSIA's 2020 Virtual Annual Marketplace and coincided with the organization's announcement that it has formed the Insurance Industry Diversity Foundation (IIDF) "to promote and attract diversity in race, gender, sexual orientation and disability and to influence meaningful progress in the diversity of the insurance industry and its talent pipeline."

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