All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 5 2016 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation recently awarded a total of $32,000 in academic scholarships to 27 insurance and risk management students at six Texas universities.The students attend...
May 4 2016 // A West Virginia University official says test results at the WVU Coliseum confirm the presence of asbestos in materials that were exposed during recent construction activities.WVU Environmental Health and Safety John...
May 2 2016 // The Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research at The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Commerce has partnered with the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, the Alabama Department of...
Apr 29 2016 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced it has awarded a combined $600,000 in grants to College of the Mainland in Texas City, Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, El Paso Community College, Kilgore College, Midland College and...
Apr 27 2016 // Authorities say about 15 people were standing on a balcony that collapsed at a house near South Carolina’s Clemson University, injuring several of them. The Greenville News reports that four people were taken to a...
Apr 13 2016 // Fire officials say a water break has caused $1 million in damage to a University of Utah building.The new estimates from last week’s flooding show it impacted 70,000 square feet of offices and equipment. Officials...
Apr 13 2016 // Take that coworker who wastes time. He mismanages resources. He’s been known to engage in activities that others in the office consider conflicts of interest. Yet, he seems to “do no wrong” in the eyes of...
Apr 12 2016 // The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) announced that E. Stuart Powell Jr., MA, CPCU, CIC, CLU, ChFC, ARM, AMIM, AAI, ARe, CRIS will retire on July 31, 2016 from his current position as vice president...
Apr 8 2016 // An independent study has shown that school bus crashes are double the performance guideline in Knox County, Tennessee.Media outlets report the study was conducted by Missouri-based School Bus Consultants was made public...
Apr 4 2016 // When underwriting an educational institution for the purposes of sexual assaults and Title IX, a little further digging may be required. Looking into who the people are who will be responsible for Title IX compliance and...
Mar 31 2016 // The head of a Southeast Texas school district where flooding swamped an elementary campus with water 5-foot deep estimates $12 million in losses and little insurance.The superintendent of the Deweyville Independent School...
Mar 25 2016 // South Carona’s Clemson University has agreed to create more anti-hazing programs as part of a lawsuit settlement involving a former soccer player.The Greenville News reported the school will spend $40,000 on the...
Mar 23 2016 // The president of an Atlanta-area college says an explosion that seriously injured a food worker could be linked to a buildup of gases in a sewer line.A statement from Georgia Gwinnett College President Stas Preczewski says...
Mar 16 2016 // Students at Sacramento State in California are being offered a ride to class in a driverless shuttle whose inventors hope will become the favored method of transportation on campuses and other small communities.The...
Mar 14 2016 // Twenty Los Angeles, Calif.-area boys who say a Torrance High School wrestling coach sexually abused them are suing the school district and administrators, claiming they failed to protect the teens and ignored past...
Mar 9 2016 // A severe thunderstorm, possibly a tornado, damaged at least seven homes scattered over a rural area of North Texas.The storm roared through the area between Weatherford and Mineral Wells about 6:15 p.m. Monday at a time...
Mar 7 2016 // Students at San Francisco State University will have to come back from the future now that hoverboards have been banned from campus due to fire concerns.Administrators informed students by email in late February that the...
Mar 7 2016 // The number of insurance industry jobs is increasing in Missouri, according to state insurance regulators.The number insurance producers in the state has grown nearly 25 percent since 2009, from 119,064 to 147,688 today,...
Mar 1 2016 // Richard Kerr, founder and chief executive officer of MarketScout, the national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA, has been elected to the Risk Management and Insurance Executive Council of the Florida State...
Feb 26 2016 // The South Carolina Revenue Department’s massive 2012 data breach gave Gov. Nikki Haley a firsthand lesson on the need for efforts to counter cybercrime, she said Wednesday.“Today, there is never a day I...