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10 New York Students Among 58 InVEST Scholarship Winners
Jul 7 2010 // InVEST, the insurance industry’s career education program, has awarded $56,500 in scholarships to 58 college-bound students pursuing insurance-related degrees, including 10 students from New York. Patrick Moore,...
Special Reuters Report: Oil Spill a Gusher for Lawyers; Litigation May Take Years
Jun 30 2010 // BP payout should far exceed what Exxon spent on Valdez The company’s $20 billion fund may not be enough Accountability may take years if not decades to assess Many federal laws allow civil, criminal liability From a...
Aon Benfield, Cologne University to Study European Windstorms
Jun 25 2010 // Aon Benfield announced that it has signed an exclusive partnership with the University of Cologne – “a leading research centre with a long record of wind storms diagnostics, extreme weather modeling and impact...
Illinois School District Insurance Cooperative Distributing First Dividend
Jun 24 2010 // Associated Risk Managers (ARM) of Illinois, based in Itasca, Ill., announced that the Prairie State Insurance Cooperative (PSIC) has presented its first dividend distribution at its Annual Members’ Meeting, just four...
Michigan University Seeks Compensation Over Bias Charge
Jun 9 2010 // Central Michigan University is asking for $174,294 from an ex- basketball player and her lawyer over their failed sex discrimination complaint involving coach Sue Guevara. The Saginaw News says the university asked U.S....
After Child Fatality, Ohio Lawmakers Push for School Bus Seat Belts
Jun 4 2010 // State lawmakers say a school bus crash that killed an eastern Ohio kindergarten student has given new urgency to a proposal requiring seat belts on school buses. Six-year-old Kasey King of Frazeysburg died June 2 when a...
CSE Insurance Group Awards $12,000 in Scholarships
Jun 3 2010 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based CSE Insurance Group has announced the winners of its 2010 Youth Scholarship Contest. With a total value of $12,000, prizes were won by those high school students who submitted the best essays on...
Texas Agents Group, Tarrant County College Launch IRC Program
Jun 3 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) and Tarrant County College have initiated the Insurance Representative Certificate (IRC) program. The self-study, self-paced virtual program prepares individuals for the...
Community Colleges Join Ohio School Risk Management, Insurance Plan
May 6 2010 // The Ohio School Plan (OSP), a group that provides insurance and risk management solutions to Ohio public school entities and boards of developmental disabilities, approved the decision to include community colleges into...
Judge: Brown University Rape-Accusation Suit Can Proceed
May 5 2010 // A student who says he was falsely accused of rape by a Brown University classmate can move forward with his lawsuit against the Ivy League school, a federal judge ruled. William McCormick III filed a federal lawsuit that...
For Tennessee Agent, NCAA Referee Maxwell, Teamwork Is Essential
May 3 2010 // While NCAA men’s basketball tournament referee and insurance agent Gary Maxwell won’t tell you which team was his pick to win (it’s against NCAA rules), he can share what he’s learned on the court...
Sweethearts in Crime: Rise in Married Couples in Securities Fraud
Apr 16 2010 // Jeffery Stone and his wife Janette Diller Stone, one-time operators of a now-defunct New York investment firm called Crescent Fund, are not on any government most wanted list. And they aren’t exactly hiding, either....
San Francisco Bay Area Insurance Agency Offers College Scholarships
Apr 15 2010 // Local multicultural college students from the San Francisco Greater Bay Area will have a chance to win scholarships and internship opportunities in the financial services field as part of a newly expanded scholarship...
Kansas State University: Crashes Caused by Older Drivers Often Severe
Apr 15 2010 // Kansas State University researchers are discovering the challenges aging creates for drivers. To help improve traffic safety, K-State engineers identified the characteristics of older drivers in Kansas and the types of...
UT San Antonio Students Receive Insurance Council Scholarships
Apr 7 2010 // Five insurance and risk management students at the University of Texas at San Antonio have been awarded $10,000 in scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT). The UTSA scholarship recipients for 2010 are...
Massachusetts Jury Awards $1.6M in Suit over College Student’s Death
Apr 5 2010 // A jury has awarded a Massachusetts couple $1.6 million in a malpractice lawsuit over the death of their son on a college basketball court. Antwoine Key, a 22-year-old senior at Eastern Connecticut State University,...
Wisconsin College Aims to Make Insurance Students ‘Real World Smart’
Apr 5 2010 // Insurance? That’s all straight commission sales,” responded a student at Madison Area Technical College when his instructor suggested he consider an insurance class. Madison College, in Madison, Wis., is...
Court-Side Lessons: Insurance Agency Management Tips Before Tip Off
Apr 5 2010 // Insurance agents might want to take notes during tonight’s NCAA championship game between Butler and Duke. While NCAA men’s basketball tournament referee and insurance agent Gary Maxwell won’t tell you...
People
Apr 5 2010 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) recently named 18 funded and 10 unfunded consumer liaison representatives for 2010. Seven of the funded consumer representatives participated in the program in...
BrickStreet Mutual Boosts Marshall University Insurance Program
Apr 1 2010 // BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. announced a $50,000 gift to Marshall University to benefit the Lewis College of Business. The contribution will further the development of an Insurance and Risk Management program at the...
