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Court Tosses Workplace Retaliation Damages Suit Against Mississippi College
May 18 2012 // A federal appeals court has ruled for Hinds Community College in a workplace retaliation case. In 2010, a Mississippi federal judge ordered the school to pay a former professor $345,020 after a federal jury found she had...
Court Ruling in Georgia Upholds School’s Use of Publication Excerpts
May 16 2012 // A federal judge sided with Georgia State University on a range of copyright infringement claims filed by three publishing houses in a ruling that administrators said could set an important precedent for how educational...
Education Board Stays With Insurance Requirement
Apr 24 2012 // The Idaho State Board of Education has decided to keep its requirement that full-time public college and university students have health insurance. The Lewiston Tribune reported that the board on Wednesday decided to...
Texas Insurance Council Scholarship Funding Tops $500K
Apr 19 2012 // With its latest round of scholarships, the Insurance Council of Texas’ (ICT) annual funding for students enrolled in insurance and risk management classes in Texas universities has topped the half million dollar...
Michigan’s Davenport University Introducing Insurance Education Specialty
Apr 11 2012 // Davenport University in Michigan announced it is introducing a new risk management and insurance specialty within its Bachelor of Business Administration in Management program beginning in the fall of 2012. Farmers...
Dartmouth College in N.H. to Help With China Health Reform Effort
Apr 10 2012 // Dartmouth College is spending the next five years helping China improve its health care system through a partnership that officials say could pay off at home as well. China announced in 2009 it would pour $124 billion into...
Minnesota Legislature Taps Insurance Agent for University Board
Apr 6 2012 // The Minnesota Legislature has selected an insurance agency owner to serve on the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents. Thomas Devine was elected a regent during a recent joint House-Senate convention. He...
Endurance’s Chief Actuary Leaving to Take University Post in Philly
Apr 5 2012 // Endurance Specialty Holdings said Michael Angelina, its chief risk officer and chief actuary, will be leaving the company to take a university post in Philadelphia. Michael Angelina Angelina will assume the position of...
Football Turns to Helmet Technology to Tackle Head Injuries
Apr 3 2012 // As Americans grow more aware of the risk of brain injury tied to football – the country’s most popular sport – players and coaches are experimenting with the latest technology in a bid to make the game...
N.Y. Court to Unemployed Law School Grads: Buyer Beware
Mar 27 2012 // A New York court sided with a law school in a case that alleged that the school misled its students about post-graduate employment prospects. The Supreme Court of the State of New York dismissed last week a lawsuit brought...
Colorado Settles Lawsuit Against Westwood College
Mar 16 2012 // Westwood College has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a lawsuit the state of Colorado filed alleging the school misled prospective students about its costs and how successful alumni are in finding jobs in their fields...
Griffith Foundation Awards Nearly $32K in Scholarships
Mar 13 2012 // The Griffith Insurance Education Foundation, based in Columbus, Ohio, has awarded $31,700 in scholarships to 26 students at seven colleges and universities. The scholarships support students studying risk management,...
Quake Simulator Coming to University of Alabama
Mar 5 2012 // There aren’t very many rooms in the world that can successfully reproduce the devastating effects of an earthquake. But come May 1, a laboratory on the University of Alabama campus may be able to do just that. Work...
Complex Trial Over Blame for Gulf Oil Spill Set to Open
Feb 24 2012 // It could be the ultimate case for passing the buck. A massive trial over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill heads for a New Orleans federal courtroom on Monday, to determine how much BP Plc and others should cough up for...
Pennsylvania Christian College Sues Over Birth Control Regs
Feb 22 2012 // A Christian college in western Pennsylvania has sued the federal government saying regulations that require employers to offer birth control coverage that includes drugs that abort fertilized embryos are “directly at...
Earthquake Simulator to Be Built at University of Alabama
Feb 21 2012 // There aren’t very many rooms in the world that can successfully reproduce the devastating effects of an earthquake. But come May 1, a laboratory on the University of Alabama campus may be able to do just that. Work...
Tennessee School Admits Foul Over Basketball Insurance
Feb 20 2012 // A Tennessee state university has apologized to an insurance company after representing that the insurer improperly denied a $20,000 prize claim to fund a promotional contest held during a basketball game. East Tennessee...
Lexington Offers International Student Tuition Income Loss Coverage
Feb 16 2012 // Lexington Insurance Co. has introduced HELP – International Catastrophe, a coverage designed to reimburse colleges and universities for the loss of tuition-related income that results when an enrolled international...
Safety, Security at Bio Labs Open to Interpretation, Not Matter of Law
Feb 15 2012 // To reach his office in Galveston National Laboratory, where scientists study deadly pathogens such as the Ebola and Marburg viruses, director James Le Duc swipes his key card at the building’s single entrance, which...
Ohio Lawmakers Hear Workforce Message in Governor’s Address
Feb 9 2012 // Republican legislative leaders say they took away from Gov. John Kasich’s State of the State speech a renewed focus on bolstering training programs for Ohio workers, answering the governor’s call to find ways...
