Latest Education Headlines
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Insurance Council of Texas Awards Scholarships
Nov 22 2010 // Insurance and risk management students at four Texas universities were recently awarded $40,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation. The students attend St. Mary’s...
Feds Rap 2 Firms for Scaffold Collapse at New York College
Nov 14 2010 // Federal workplace safety officials say they’ve cited two contractors for the scaffolding collapse that injured six workers at a construction site last June at Binghamton University in New York. The Occupational...
Court Reduces Award in University of Kentucky Football Player’s Death
Nov 3 2010 // The Kentucky Court of Appeals has reduced the monetary award in a lawsuit over the death of a University of Kentucky football player. The court halved the $60 million in punitive damages to $30 million, ruling the award in...
Alabama Study: School Bus Seat Belt Money Better Spent at Crossings
Oct 27 2010 // School buses are safe enough without seat belts and students in many cases ignore a requirement to wear them, according to a study in Alabama released this week that found the straps would save the life of about one child...
Marshall University Settles Privacy Abuse Claim
Oct 22 2010 // Marshall University and the daughter of state Treasurer John Perdue have reached a tentative settlement over her lawsuit claiming the school and a professor violated her privacy by releasing information about her...
Connecticut High School Ex-Sprinter Settles $325K Suit Against Town
Oct 18 2010 // A former student at East Lyme High School in Connecticut who needed emergency brain surgery after crashing into a cement wall during indoor track practice has settled a lawsuit against the town for $325,000. Nicholas...
University Study of P/C Insurers Finds Bad CEOs Can Wreck Companies
Oct 18 2010 // When companies go out of business, their leaders often blame something other than their own performance for the failure. Lehman Bros.’s CEO Richard Fuld said his compensation package had nothing to do with his...
University of Kansas Student Receives Insurance Settlement Scholarship
Oct 6 2010 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has awarded a $1,000 scholarship to a University of Kansas minority student as part of a program established by an insurance company’s discrimination suit settlement....
Alabama Students Learn Driver Safety from Simulation Software
Oct 1 2010 // Heather Myers, 18, will tell you she has texted while driving, but she’s quick to point out it’s only in an emergency. “I’ve never texted when I’m on the highway, though,” said the...
Ohio AG Settles with Marsh
Sep 29 2010 // Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray has settled an antitrust lawsuit against Marsh & McLennan Cos. for $4.75 million. Public entities throughout the state — including universities, schools, cities and counties...
Ike-Damaged School Districts in Texas Want Insurance Help
Sep 23 2010 // School districts affected by extensive property damage caused by Hurricane Ike in 2008 have seen their insurance premiums skyrocket and want the state to help pay for it. District officials in Galveston County have had...
University Study of P/C Insurers Finds Bad CEOs Can Wreck Companies
Sep 20 2010 // When companies go out of business, their leaders often blame something other than their own performance for the failure. Lehman Bros.’s CEO Richard Fuld said his compensation package had nothing to do with his...
Ohio Supreme Court Gets University Bus Crash Insurance Case
Sep 16 2010 // Lawyers clashed this week before Ohio’s Supreme Court on whether a university’s insurers should be liable for a 2007 bus crash that killed seven people, including five student baseball players. An attorney for...
Judge: Pennsylvania School District Must Pay $260K in Spying Case
Sep 1 2010 // A federal judge says a suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a laptop spying scandal must pay a family’s lawyer about $260,000. Lower Merion School District was ordered Monday to pay attorney Mark...
University Study of P/C Insurers Finds Bad CEOs Can Wreck Companies
Aug 31 2010 // When companies go out of business, their leaders often blame something other than their own performance for the failure. Lehman Bros.’s CEO Richard Fuld said his immense compensation package had nothing to do with...
Fireman’s Fund Expands Green Insurance to Educational Institutions
Aug 31 2010 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. is broadening its commercial green insurance appetite to include public and private schools, colleges and universities, and trade and vocational schools. With Green-Gard commercial...
Arson Blamed for Fire at New York Elementary School
Aug 12 2010 // New York arson investigators have determined that a blaze at a Long Island elementary school was intentionally set. Police say witnesses reported hearing a loud explosion and saw several people running from the George...
Mississippi School District Pays Lesbian $35K for Canceled Prom
Jul 22 2010 // A rural school district that canceled its prom rather than allow a lesbian student to attend with her girlfriend has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit the ACLU filed on her behalf. The district also...
Investors Face Uphill Battle with Liability Lawsuits Against BP
Jul 20 2010 // Shareholders angry about BP Plc’s battered stock price are heading to the courthouse in hopes of reclaiming some of their losses, but they face an uphill battle. Since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in April,...
Are Insureds Lying? Watch Their Eyes!
Jul 13 2010 // Shifty eyes long have been thought to signify a person’s problem telling the truth. Now a group of University of Utah researchers are taking that old adage to a new level. Educational psychologists John Kircher, Doug...
