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College Player May Be Blocked from Collecting on $20,000 Half-Court Shot
Nov 26 2013 // Making a half-court shot during a promotion at an Oklahoma City Thunder game might be easier for 23-year-old Cameron Rodriguez than keeping the $20,000 prize. Rodriguez, a basketball player at Southwestern College in...
NCAA Sues Video Game Maker Over College Athlete Settlement
Nov 21 2013 // The National Collegiate Athletic Association sued Electronic Arts Inc., saying the video-game maker hasn’t agreed to indemnify the NCAA for legal claims by college athletes and hasn’t maintained insurance to do...
University of Alabama Does What It Takes to Protect Trademark
Nov 19 2013 // University of Alabama officials say the school has issued 153 cease and desist letters in the past decade to businesses and people accused of selling goods that violate the school’s trademarks. The school defends its...
Texas Insurer Group Awards Fall Scholarships to 20 Students
Nov 18 2013 // Twenty students at four Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $38,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation. The students attend St. Mary’s University...
Google Wins Copyright Scanning Case Against Authors; Judge Finds ‘Fair Use’
Nov 15 2013 // Google Inc. on Thursday won dismissal of a long-running lawsuit by authors who accused the Internet search company of digitally copying millions of books for an online library without permission. U.S. Circuit Judge Denny...
Industries Confront Louisiana’s Skilled Labor Gap
Nov 6 2013 // A Harahan manufacturing company has had to recruit outside Louisiana for skilled trade workers. The Laitram Corp. isn’t alone in its difficulty finding trained workers for such jobs as electricians and...
Penn State Announces $59.7M Settlement With Sandusky Victims
Oct 28 2013 // Penn State officials announced Monday that over the past few months the university has reached agreement with 26 of the victims of former assistant football coach Gerald Sandusky. The aggregate dollar amount paid by the...
University of Alabama Studies Impact of 2011 Tornado on Foreclosures
Oct 21 2013 // A University of Alabama study has found that the April 2011 tornado didn’t severely impact home foreclosures in the Tuscaloosa area. Sociologist Bronwen Lichtenstein says researchers noted a slight decrease in...
For-Profit College Company Sued By California
Oct 15 2013 // California’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a for-profit college company of misrepresenting job placement rates, false advertising and other deceptive practices to lure low-income residents to take out...
Penn State’s Sex Scandal Bill Tops $50 Million Before Civil Suits
Oct 14 2013 // Penn State has spent more than $50 million on fines, legal bills and other costs linked to a sex abuse scandal that has roiled the university for nearly two years, according to the school’s website. That figure does...
The Next Generation of Leaders
Oct 7 2013 // The insurance industry is facing a crisis. Twenty percent of the insurance workforce is near retirement age, compared to only 15 percent of the broader financial services workforce. By 2018, the number of the insurance...
Bunch Named to University of Houston-Downtown Advisory Council
Aug 22 2013 // The University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) has appointed Richard “Gordy” Bunch, president and CEO of The Woodlands Financial Group, to its Insurance and Risk Management Center’s Advisory Council serving the...
College Athletes’ Claims Over Video Game Images Delayed
Aug 22 2013 // Electronic Arts Inc. won a court ruling that puts on hold claims accusing the company of profiting from using likenesses of college athletes in its video games. The ruling by a federal appeals court in San Francisco will...
Georgia Southern University Using Helmet Sensors to Detect Concussions
Aug 20 2013 // In one football practice, some players may take several hits, while others take a few big blows. For coaches and trainers, keeping track of it all can be difficult. “A lot of times when we’re on the field,...
Penn State Settles First of Sandusky Sex Abuse Lawsuits
Aug 19 2013 // Pennsylvania State University agreed to settle the first of 31 suits filed in the sex-abuse scandal involving ex-football coach Jerry Sandusky, with about 25 more set to settle, lawyers in the resolved case said. The...
Florida Court Reduces Damages in College Football Player Wrongful Death Suit
Aug 18 2013 // A ruling by a Florida appeals court on Friday has reduced a $10 million damage award to $200,000 in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a University of Central Florida football player who died following...
Colorado University Gets Support for ERM and Insurance Program
Aug 16 2013 // The College of Business at Colorado State University is a step closer to launching a program to train students in the insurance and risk management fields thanks to a $150,000 gift from the IMA Foundation. The Enterprise...
West Virginia University Initiative Cuts Workers’ Comp Costs
Aug 6 2013 // West Virginia University has reduced its workers’ compensation costs by about $600,000 and is looking for more ways to save money. WVU Office of Risk Management head Mike Ganso tells The Dominion Post that the effort...
Why Scientists Are Causing Earthquakes
Aug 2 2013 // Earthquakes never occur when needed so a team led by Johns Hopkins structural engineers is shaking up a building themselves in the name of science and safety. Using massive moving platforms and an array of sensors and...
University Of Central Oklahoma to Co-Host 2014 Tornado Summit
Aug 1 2013 // The University of Central Oklahoma has been selected as a co-host of the 2014 National Tornado Summit. The summit serves as a forum for national and state experts to meet and recommend new policies to improve emergency...
