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Markel to be Honored as 2016 Insurance Leader Of The Year in New York
Dec 30 2016 // Anthony F. Markel, vice chairman of the board at the Markel Corporation will be honored by The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University as the School of Risk Management’s 2016 Insurance...
Pollution from New Hampshire’s Dartmouth College Lab Dump Worries Neighbors
Dec 27 2016 // Neighbors of Dartmouth College property where for years the Ivy League school disposed of mice and other small animals used in science experiments say they fear pollution from the site has contaminated their groundwater...
University in Ohio Agrees to Settle Student’s Sex Discrimination Suit
Dec 22 2016 // The University of Cincinnati has settled a federal lawsuit filed by a student who said she was told she had to sit and work with other female students and not with male students in a physics lab. U.S. District Judge Susan...
Art University to Settle for $60M with San Francisco
Dec 20 2016 // The Academy of Art University in San Francisco has agreed to a $60 million settlement with the city aimed at bringing the school’s many illegally converted buildings into compliance with local rules. The San...
Allstate Continues Its Technology Drive, Invests in Autonomous Vehicle Research at Stanford
Dec 15 2016 // Allstate Insurance Co., the nation’s largest publicly-held personal lines insurer, is continuing its drive into new technology, agreeing to a multi-year research project with the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at...
Suit Accuses California University of Mishandling Sex Assault Reports
Dec 9 2016 // A Stanford University graduate student claimed in a federal lawsuit that the school failed to adequately investigate and discipline a former student who was a “known sexual predator” while attending the college...
Rolling Stone Challenges Verdict in University of Virginia Defamation Case
Dec 7 2016 // Rolling Stone magazine urged a federal judge on Monday to overturn the verdict of a jury, which found that the publication and a reporter defamed a University of Virginia administrator with their botched story about a gang...
Suit over Woman Shot by University of Arizona Officer Revived
Dec 6 2016 // A federal appeals court has resurrected an excessive-force lawsuit by a woman who was shot by a University of Arizona police officer six year ago as she held a knife in her hand outside her home. Amy Hughes had lost her...
Rutgers Law School in New Jersey Launches Project to Improve Homeowners Insurance
Dec 5 2016 // The Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility at Rutgers Law School in Camden, N.J., in collaboration with United Policyholders, is seeking to improve homeowners insurance nationally through its recently launched national...
Could POTUS Battle Trigger More Discrimination Suits?
Dec 5 2016 // Regardless of one’s political leaning, the 2016 presidential election offered bold dialogue. Many criticized the president-elect for brash comments and a disregard for political correctness. If recent news reports...
Lawsuit Alleges Inaction by Kansas State Officials Led to Another Rape
Dec 1 2016 // A female student contends in a court filing that Kansas State University’s failure to investigate the rape of another woman allowed the same alleged assailant to sexually assault her. The accusations were levied in...
Emporia State University Wins Kansas ‘Don’t Text #Just Drive’ Contest
Nov 29 2016 // Emporia State University received the highest number of votes by percentage of students enrolled to win the initial “Don’t Text #Just Drive” fall contest, according to the Kansas Insurance...
Trump Settles University Fraud Claims for $25 Million, Avoids Trial
Nov 20 2016 // President-elect Donald Trump agreed to pay $25 million to settle claims that his defunct Trump University cheated more than 6,000 students with false promises of teaching them his real estate secrets. The accord, announced...
President-Elect Trump Seeks Delay in Fraud Trial Over His Real Estate University
Nov 18 2016 // Donald Trump is pulling out the stops to stall a fraud trial over his defunct real estate “university” until he’s president. Having earlier persuaded a federal judge to delay the trial until after last...
Rutgers Law School in New Jersey Launches Project to Improve Homeowners’ Insurance
Nov 17 2016 // Rutgers Law School’s Camden, N.J., location, in collaboration with United Policyholders, is seeking to improve homeowners’ insurance nationally through its recently launched project. The Rutgers Center for Risk...
University of Georgia Settles Hazardous Waste Violations with EPA for $400K
Nov 14 2016 // The University of Georgia will spend more than $400,000 after federal inspectors found dozens of safety violations in the way it handles hazardous waste. Under a “consent agreement and final order” with the...
Jury Awards $3M in Damages Over Rolling Stone Rape Story
Nov 8 2016 // A federal court jury on Monday awarded $3 million in damages to a University of Virginia administrator that last week found was defamed by Rolling Stone magazine’s now-retracted story of a gang rape. The 10-person...
Investigation Finds 17 Women Reported Assaults by 19 Baylor University Players
Oct 31 2016 // An outside investigation of the Baylor University sexual violence scandal found 17 women who had reported sexual or domestic assaults involving 19 Baylor University athletes since 2011, university regents have told The...
Idaho College Agrees to Settle VP’s $650K Lawsuit
Oct 27 2016 // The College of Southern Idaho has agreed to pay a former vice president $650,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit. The Times-News reported in a story on Tuesday that the settlement with Edit Szanto was made through the...
University of Iowa Cites Copyright Law to Block Flood Video Use
Oct 21 2016 // University of Iowa is citing a copyright law to block the use of the university’s footage of a 2008 flood for an upcoming documentary. Doug Krejci, who is trying to gather materials for a documentary about eastern...
