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Father Testifies in J&J Opioid Marketing Trial on Death of His College Football Star Son
May 30 2019 // Austin Box was a home-grown football star at the University of Oklahoma in 2010 when back surgery to repair an injury got him started on powerful opioid painkillers that would end his life at 22, his father testified...
Nebraska’s Creighton University Launches FinTech Degree Program
May 29 2019 // Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, announced its Heider College of Business has launched what the university says is the first of its kind Finance and Technology (FinTech) major, a degree program that combines...
Attorneys Say Ohio State Must Reveal Who Knew About Abuse by Team Doctor
May 23 2019 // Administrators at Ohio State University should release the names of all coaches, trainers and personnel who knew of but failed to act on complaints about a now-dead team doctor who sexually abused male students for nearly...
University of Alaska, Former Professor Sued over Sexual Misconduct Allegations
May 22 2019 // A lawsuit has been filed against a retired University of Alaska Anchorage anthropology professor who is banned from campus over sexual misconduct allegations by multiple women. David Yesner is named in the federal lawsuit...
Billionaire Paying Off College Students’ $40 Million Debt Has Ties to Insurance Industry
May 20 2019 // The billionaire technology investor and philanthropist who has promised to assume the $40 million student debt of the entire graduating class at Morehouse College has ties to the insurance industry. Robert F. Smith, who...
South Carolina Passes Ridesharing Safety Bill Prompted by College Student’s Murder
May 13 2019 // Legislators passed a ridesharing safety act that requires those services to display their license plate numbers on the front of their vehicles. The bill requires ridesharing drivers for companies like Uber and Lyft to...
University Of Alaska Reaching out to People Hit by Data Breach
Apr 30 2019 // The University of Alaska is attempting to contact people who may have been affected by a computer data breach. The Daily News-Miner reported Sunday that hacking between January and February 2018 may have compromised email...
30 Texas University Students Receive Insurance Council Scholarships
Apr 26 2019 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation has awarded a total of $40,000 in academic scholarships to 30 students studying insurance and risk management at five Texas universities. The students attend the...
Murder of South Carolina College Student Prompts Uber Safety Changes
Apr 22 2019 // Uber Technologies Inc. said it was rolling out new safety features to help riders avoid fake rideshare drivers, two weeks after the murder of a college student who got into her killer’s car mistakenly believing it...
Pennsylvania Insurance Department to Hold NextGen Academy for College Students
Apr 17 2019 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman has announced that her department, along with a working group of stakeholders, will this summer hold the Pennsylvania NextGen Insurance Academy to provide college students...
Alleging Shoddy Stadium Work, University of Akron Sues Companies
Apr 16 2019 // The University of Akron in Ohio is suing several companies over the condition of railings in the school’s stadium, saying shoddy construction and design led to $1 million in needed repairs. The university lawsuit...
Students from Eight Colleges Participate in Virtual Agency Competition
Apr 15 2019 // College students from eight universities recently formed teams and spent a month running a simulated insurance agency as part of a virtual online competition developed by PriSim War Games, a provider of computerized...
Higginbotham University Strives to Be ‘Best in Texas and Beyond’
Apr 15 2019 // Mike Bateman, managing director, Sales, for Dallas-based Higginbotham has invested a lot of time and money into making the firm’s “Higg University” a reality. Launched in 2016, the University is the...
Missouri University Scientists Using AI to Design Flood Evacuation Plans
Apr 10 2019 // Transportation agencies and first responders may soon get help from artificial intelligence to determine the best evacuation routes during floods such as those affecting portions of Missouri and the Midwest. Researchers at...
Duke University to Settle Whistleblower Suit Over Faked-Research for $112M
Mar 29 2019 // Duke University will pay $112 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit after federal prosecutors said a research technician’s fake data landed millions of dollars in federal grants, the school and the government...
Vanderbilt University Hospital Sued for $25M for Operating on Wrong Kidney
Mar 26 2019 // A Tennessee woman says Vanderbilt University Medical Center operated on the wrong kidney during her surgery in what federal officials call a “never event.” The Tennessean reports Carla Miller says the error...
U. of Minnesota Worker Charged with Stealing $134K in Computers from School
Mar 26 2019 // A former University of Minnesota employee who admitted to stealing iPads from Target is also accused of the using school funds to purchase 78 computers over 14 months and sell them for personal profit, according to...
Officials Say Temple University Mumps Outbreak Swells to 67 Likely Cases
Mar 21 2019 // Philadelphia health officials say they now believe 67 people have contracted mumps at Temple University. City Department of Health spokesman James Garrow said the total number of probable cases stands at 67 – up from...
Beyond Nassar: Michigan State Creates Captive, Explores Other Insurance Options
Mar 18 2019 // Michigan State University continues to explore its insurance coverage options with regard to sexual assault or molestation claims brought against the school after rejecting renewal coverage offered by its long-term...
Students from University of Southern California, Other Schools File Admissions-Scandal Class Action
Mar 15 2019 // The University of Southern California, Yale University, the University of California Los Angeles and other colleges were sued by two Stanford University students seeking class status over the admissions-bribery scandal...
