All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 29 2010 // New Jersey will begin a new effort next year to try to improve on a grim reality: Motor vehicle accidents remain the leading cause of death for teenagers and young adults, the age group least likely to wear seat belts.The...
Dec 29 2010 // The Ohio Supreme Court says a university’s insurance coverage extended to a charter bus that crashed, killing five student baseball players and two others.The 5-2 ruling issued Dec. 28 is a victory for families and...
Dec 21 2010 // An astronomer argues that his Christian faith and his peers’ belief that he is an evolution skeptic kept him from getting a prestigious job as the director of a new student observatory at the University of...
Dec 15 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Steve Barksdale, vice president at Bancorp South Insurance Services Inc., in Athens, Texas, as its newest Trusted Choice Hometown Hero.The Hometown Hero program...
Dec 1 2010 // Analysts’ dividend forecasts point to steady recovery BP, analysts, may be underestimating legal charges BP has history of low-balling long-term cost of disasters “Gross negligence,” punitive damages not...
Nov 22 2010 // Insurance and risk management students at four Texas universities were recently awarded $40,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation. The students attend St. Mary’s...
Nov 14 2010 // Federal workplace safety officials say they’ve cited two contractors for the scaffolding collapse that injured six workers at a construction site last June at Binghamton University in New York. The Occupational...
Nov 3 2010 // The Kentucky Court of Appeals has reduced the monetary award in a lawsuit over the death of a University of Kentucky football player. The court halved the $60 million in punitive damages to $30 million, ruling the award in...
Oct 27 2010 // School buses are safe enough without seat belts and students in many cases ignore a requirement to wear them, according to a study in Alabama released this week that found the straps would save the life of about one child...
Oct 22 2010 // Marshall University and the daughter of state Treasurer John Perdue have reached a tentative settlement over her lawsuit claiming the school and a professor violated her privacy by releasing information about her...
Oct 18 2010 // A former student at East Lyme High School in Connecticut who needed emergency brain surgery after crashing into a cement wall during indoor track practice has settled a lawsuit against the town for $325,000.Nicholas...
Oct 18 2010 // When companies go out of business, their leaders often blame something other than their own performance for the failure. Lehman Bros.’s CEO Richard Fuld said his compensation package had nothing to do with his...
Oct 6 2010 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has awarded a $1,000 scholarship to a University of Kansas minority student as part of a program established by an insurance company’s discrimination suit settlement....
Oct 1 2010 // Heather Myers, 18, will tell you she has texted while driving, but she’s quick to point out it’s only in an emergency.“I’ve never texted when I’m on the highway, though,” said the senior...
Sep 29 2010 // Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray has settled an antitrust lawsuit against Marsh & McLennan Cos. for $4.75 million. Public entities throughout the state — including universities, schools, cities and counties...
Sep 23 2010 // School districts affected by extensive property damage caused by Hurricane Ike in 2008 have seen their insurance premiums skyrocket and want the state to help pay for it.District officials in Galveston County have had...
Sep 20 2010 // When companies go out of business, their leaders often blame something other than their own performance for the failure. Lehman Bros.’s CEO Richard Fuld said his compensation package had nothing to do with his...
Sep 16 2010 // Lawyers clashed this week before Ohio’s Supreme Court on whether a university’s insurers should be liable for a 2007 bus crash that killed seven people, including five student baseball players. An attorney for...
Sep 1 2010 // A federal judge says a suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a laptop spying scandal must pay a family’s lawyer about $260,000.Lower Merion School District was ordered Monday to pay attorney Mark...
Aug 31 2010 // When companies go out of business, their leaders often blame something other than their own performance for the failure. Lehman Bros.’s CEO Richard Fuld said his immense compensation package had nothing to do with...