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Stricter Gun Laws Haven’t Made Communities Safer from Mass Shootings

Oct 23 2018 // A trauma research team has developed a profile of commonalities among communities where mass shootings have occurred that includes a shortage of mental health professionals, a relative lack of socialization opportunities,...

Federal Safety Agency Shuts Down Self-Driving School Bus Test

Oct 23 2018 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday said it had ordered Transdev North America to immediately stop transporting school children in Florida in a driverless shuttle, as the testing could be putting...

Parents of Florida College Student Killed by Garbage Truck Awarded $25M

Oct 23 2018 // Jurors have awarded $25 million to the parents of a University of Florida student who was run over and killed by a garbage truck near campus. The Gainesville Sun reports that an Alachua County jury awarded $12.5 million...

CoreLogic & Academic Institutions: The Future of Catastrophe Risk

Oct 18 2018 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Ten years ago, CoreLogic® (at the time, EQECAT) introduced the use of global Atmosphere-Ocean-General-Circulation Models (AOGCM) for insurance-oriented assessments of...

Texas DOT Report: Crashed Oklahoma School Bus Was Traveling Too Fast

Oct 17 2018 // An Oklahoma school bus that hydroplaned on a wet road and crashed in Central Texas last month, injuring nearly everyone on board, was traveling at an unsafe speed for the conditions, according to a Texas Department of...

Colleges Handling Surge in Claims of Past Sexual Harassment

Oct 16 2018 // For 35 years, Ruth D’Eredita tried to dismiss her former professor’s behavior — the way he touched her, groped her and kissed her. But last year, as dozens of women came forward to share similar encounters...

Missouri School District Settles Age Discrimination Lawsuit for $116.4K

Oct 15 2018 // The Springfield, Missouri, school district has reached a settlement with a longtime secretary who claimed in a lawsuit that the district tried to fire her because of her age. The Springfield News-Leader reports the...

Losses to North Carolina Schools from Florence Worse than Hurricane Matthew

Oct 11 2018 // North Carolina’s public school officials expect damage from Hurricane Florence to well exceed school losses after Hurricane Matthew two years ago, a Department of Public Instruction official told the state’s...

Risk Strategies Hires Morin as VP of University Health Plans in Massachusetts

Oct 10 2018 // Risk Strategies, a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has hired Boyce Morin as vice president of University Health Plans, the firm’s specialty division focusing on the design,...

Crowdsourcing App Promises Real-Time Alerts on Flooding Risk

Oct 9 2018 // When flood waters rise, more data helps better predict and monitor changing conditions. Soon there will be an app for that.The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Smart and Connected Communities $1.5 million grant...

Concussions Have Plummeted in Ivy League Football Since Kickoff Change in 2016

Oct 4 2018 // Concussions plunged in Ivy League football after the kickoff line was moved to thwart what might be the game’s most dangerous play, according to a study published Monday.The aim of the 5-yard move was to have more...

West Virginia University Bans 5 Fraternities for At Least 10 Years

Oct 2 2018 // West Virginia University says it has banned five fraternities from campus for at least 10 years. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Alpha Sigma Phi, Kappa Alpha Order, Phi Sigma Kappa, Sigma Chi and Theta Chi can no...

Admissions Bias Claim Against Harvard Must Go to Bench Trial

Oct 1 2018 // Harvard, the nation’s oldest university, must go to trial to defend a lawsuit claiming it discriminates against Asian-American applicants.A Boston federal judge’s rejection Friday of requests by both sides for...

Insurance Is the New Kale? Not So Fast

Oct 1 2018 // An industry publication recently published an article that said insurance is “the new kale” because the one-time ignored garnish today is sought after as a healthy must-have in the form of everything from...

What States Have Done, and Not Done, About Guns

Sep 28 2018 // Shortly after last year’s shooting massacre on the Las Vegas strip, Ohio Gov. John Kasich convened a panel to explore possible reforms to state gun laws.A Republican, Kasich wanted to be sure its members clearly...

Montana School District Suit Says Trainer Sexually Abused Student Athletes

Sep 24 2018 // An athletic trainer at a Montana high school sexually abused at least 18 student athletes decades ago under the guise of boosting their athletic performance, according to a newly filed lawsuit.The deception was aided by...

Being Nice to Employees Pays Off

Sep 21 2018 // Want the best results out of your employees? Then be nice to them.New research from Binghamton University, State University at New York finds that showing compassion to employees almost always pays off, especially when...

9 Female Athletes Allege Sex Discrimination at Louisiana University

Sep 18 2018 // Complaints of sex discrimination made against the University of Louisiana at Lafayette by nine female athletes include allegations by some of the women of inappropriate behavior by the university’s president and...

Plea Deal Made in Louisiana State University Student’s Hazing Death

Sep 10 2018 // Two young men have pleaded no contest to misdemeanor hazing in the drinking death of a Louisiana State University fraternity pledge whose blood alcohol level was more than six times the legal limit for driving.Sean-Paul...

Woman Sues University of Oregon for $215K over Concert Injuries

Sep 7 2018 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against the University of Oregon over injuries she claims to have sustained while at a rock concert in 2016.The Register-Guard reporte Anne Holder filed the law suit last week in Lane County...