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College Station, Texas, Expands Auto Theft Prevention Program
Jan 20 2010 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) and the College Station Police Department are expanding a crime prevention campaign aimed at preventing auto thefts and auto burglaries. The program involves the funding and...
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Jan 10 2010 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) elected Craig Sparks chairman of its board of directors. Sparks has been president of the Union Standard Insurance Company in Irving since 2000. Sparks’ insurance career began the...
Special Reuters Report: America’s Route to Recovery
Dec 29 2009 // When Bob Hagan was a boy in Youngstown, Ohio, people equated the coke dust they swept off their doorsteps each day with opportunity, for it came from the steel mills that built this city. After graduating from high school...
Virginia Tech Faces $43 Million Lawsuit By Family Over Student’s Suicide
Dec 9 2009 // The family of a Virginia Tech student has filed a $43 million lawsuit, accusing the university of negligence in its response to a warning that their son was suicidal. Daniel Kim committed suicide on Dec. 9, 2007, about a...
University Dorm Fires on the Rise
Dec 6 2009 // Heat From Powered Equipment a Big Contributor An estimated average of 3,800 fires occur each year in university dwellings, amounting to $26 million in property loss, according to a special report by the Federal Emergency...
La Salle to Pay $7.5M over Brain Injury to Football Player
Dec 2 2009 // A private university will pay $7.5 million to provide care to a football player who suffered a severe brain injury in a 2005 game, settling a case that questioned how the school handled a concussion the player allegedly...
Six Former Employees at Maine College Claim Age Discrimination
Dec 1 2009 // Six former employees of the University of Southern Maine who lost their jobs in a consolidation move are claiming they were discriminated against because of their ages. The former employees, between the ages of 55 and 65,...
Wisconsin Technical College Creates Insurance Education Program
Nov 23 2009 // Madison, Wis., Area Technical College has launched an Insurance Certificate Program to respond the needs of the growing insurance industry in that state. Wisconsin has the 6th largest concentration of insurers in the...
University of Michigan Pays $1 Million to Settle Student’s Dismissal Lawsuit
Nov 16 2009 // The University of Michigan is paying $1 million to settle a lawsuit with a former dental student who claimed she was illegally kicked out of school, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press. The AP reported...
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Nov 15 2009 // The National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) recently honored John Latham, regional president with Markel, for his contributions as an excess and surplus lines professional. He received the...
With Katrina Insurance Finally Settled, Mississippi College Starts Rebuilding
Oct 30 2009 // Pearl River Community College in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is moving forward on rebuilding facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina after four years of “moving in quicksand.” Officials settled with Zurich...
Indiana State to Name Business School for Insurance Executive
Oct 21 2009 // Indiana State University officials plan to name its business college for a Terre Haute insurance executive who has made a large donation helping pay for the college’s building renovation. The ISU Foundation has...
Judge Denies Dartmouth College Request in Ski Death Case
Oct 5 2009 // A federal judge has denied a request by Dartmouth College to rule in its favor on a lawsuit over the death of a student in a 2004 skiing accident. Christina Porter was in an introductory skiing class to fulfill her...
How the Great Recession is Changing the American Workplace
Oct 5 2009 // Going to work may never be the same again: the Great Recession has reshaped the American workplace and work force in ways that will last years, if not longer. The work force is graying as college graduates can’t find...
Tell Parents to ‘Mind The Gaps’ When Kids Head to College
Oct 5 2009 // As Students Arrive on Campus, New Exposures Can Arise As legions of students head back to college this fall, parents should be mindful of gaps in insurance that can exist while their children are living away from...
Antioch University in Ohio Sued over Alleged Rape on Overseas Program
Sep 23 2009 // A former university student says in a lawsuit she was raped by a bus driver hired as part of Antioch University’s overseas study program. The student alleges in a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court that she...
Tell Parents to ‘Mind The Gaps’ When Kids Head to College
Sep 21 2009 // Students attending college away from the residence premises (home) may begin the semester as fully protected “insureds,” but can end the semester in a protection gap without property or liability protection...
Federal Judge Rules Michigan College Coach Immune to Player Suit
Sep 8 2009 // A federal judge has dismissed parts of a lawsuit against Central Michigan University and its women’s basketball coach, who is accused of dropping a scholarship partly because a player isn’t a lesbian. U.S....
New Jersey College Offers Insurance Degree
Sep 2 2009 // A new associate’s degree program is being offered at a community college in New Jersey to prepare students for work in the insurance industry. The program at Mercer County Community College in Trenton was developed...
Discrimination Suit Filed Against Univ. of Iowa Law School
Aug 25 2009 // A Michigan man has filed a lawsuit against the University of Iowa and its College of Law claiming he was the victim of age discrimination. Donald Dobkin, 56, of West Bloomfield, Mich., filed his lawsuit in U.S. District...
