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Tennessee Teen Kidnapped by Teacher Settles with School District for $650K
Feb 20 2020 // A lawsuit has been settled between a Tennessee school district and a former student who was kidnapped by a teacher when she was 15. Tad Cummins sparked a 39-day nationwide manhunt when he fled the state with the former...
RIMS Workshop at University of Southern California Drawing Broader Insurance Professional Audience
Feb 18 2020 // A risk professional is no longer merely someone who just focuses on protecting assets, according to Ward Ching, a managing director of the Western region at Aon. Ching not only sees a growing need for risk professionals to...
Iowa District to Pay $4.8M to Settle Suit Over Deadly School Bus Fire
Feb 18 2020 // A western Iowa school district will pay $4.8 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of 16-year-old girl who died in a 2017 school bus fire that also killed the bus driver. Riverside Community School District has...
Lawsuit Alleges Pennsylvania School District Knew About Lead, Asbestos Contamination
Feb 14 2020 // Current and former employees of a Pennsylvania school district claimed in a lawsuit filed Monday that officials knew for years that unsafe levels of lead and asbestos posed potential health risks for students and staff but...
California State University to Pay $240K to Settle Pro-Life Lawsuit
Feb 10 2020 // The California State University system and Cal State San Marcos agreed to pay $240,000 to settle a lawsuit challenging their refusal to use student fees to fund a pro-life speaker on campus, according to a newspaper report...
Michigan School District to Reinstate Employee, Pay $102.9K in Whistleblower Case
Feb 3 2020 // A school district in Michigan has been ordered to reinstate one employee and pay a total of $102,905.78 in back wages, damages and other compensation in a whistleblower case. The U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Selective Insurance Launches Agency Management Collegiate Competition
Feb 3 2020 // Teams of students from seven universities throughout the U.S. today begin a month-long collegiate competition in which they will run virtual insurance agencies in a computer-simulated environment. The competition, called...
2 Construction Workers Injured at University of Alabama Stadium
Jan 28 2020 // Two construction workers, participating in the renovation of Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama, were injured Saturday when beams fell on a piece of equipment they were operating. Tuscaloosa Fire Rescue...
Truck, School Bus Collide in Arkansas, Injuring 9
Jan 23 2020 // Nine people were injured, including a child who was airlifted to a hospital, when a school bus and a dump truck collided Tuesday afternoon on a state highway in northeast Arkansas, authorities said. Arkansas State Police...
New Mexico State University Wrongly Fired Professor, Lawsuit Charges
Jan 23 2020 // A former criminal justice professor at New Mexico State University says he lost his job in retaliation for reporting misconduct at his department. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports Francisco Alatorre last month filed a...
Minnesota School District Sued by Parents of Students Who Were Sexually Exploited
Jan 17 2020 // The parents of two students are suing the Bemidji school district, alleging it was negligent in allowing a former assistant principal to sexually exploit their children. Brandon Bjerknes, who was arrested in 2017, is...
Supreme Court Says State Universities Not Immune to Patent Challenges
Jan 17 2020 // The U.S. Supreme Court refused to shield state-run universities from having to appear before a federal administrative body to defend the validity of patents they own. The justices turned down an appeal by the University of...
Alabama School District Closes School Damaged by EF-2 Tornado
Jan 16 2020 // A north Alabama school district is closing some of its schools this week after a tornado caused heavy damage at an elementary school, the superintendent said. A twister that forecasters determined was an EF-2 with winds up...
Alaska School District Weighing Cost of Earthquake Relief
Jan 16 2020 // Negotiations between the Anchorage School District in Alaska and the federal government over earthquake damage relief could result in the district turning down millions in funds, an official said. The negotiations over...
Insurer to Pay Settlement in Title IX Suit Against Southern Arkansas University
Jan 14 2020 // A former Southern Arkansas University student has settled a lawsuit with the university in Magnolia alleging SAU acted with “deliberate indifference” when she reported being sexually assaulted in 2015. The...
South Dakota School District Settles Former Student’s Lawsuit for $65K
Jan 14 2020 // A school district in South Dakota has agreed to pay $65,000 to settle a sexual discrimination lawsuit brought by a former honor student who said her high school principal punished her for using a phrase her male peers used...
Risk Strategies Acquires Academic HealthPlans in Texas
Jan 14 2020 // National insurance brokerage and risk management firm, Risk Strategies, has acquired Academic HealthPlans Inc. (AHP), a Grapevine, Texas-based provider of health insurance plans that colleges and universities make...
Nonprofit Opening Flood Risk Model to Researchers and Public
Jan 14 2020 // A nonprofit flood risk research organization is offering the first publicly available flood risk model that predicts the probability of flooding for homes and properties across the United States. Brooklyn, N.Y.-based First...
UT-Austin Acknowledges 17 Cases of Employee Sexual Misconduct
Jan 13 2020 // Seventeen employees at the University of Texas at Austin, including three faculty members and one research fellow, were found to have violated the flagship’s sexual misconduct policies between November 2017 and...
Ex-U. of Oklahoma Official Facing Multiple Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
Jan 10 2020 // A third University of Oklahoma student has come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against a former university administrator. The 21-year-old student claims in a lawsuit filed on Jan. 6 that former OU Vice...
