All the headlines from our Universities Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 17 2017 // A University of Oregon student seeks $3 million in a lawsuit against medical providers who she says failed to properly diagnose her with meningococcal disease in 2015.The Register-Guard reported that Christina...
Jan 17 2017 // Authorities say a construction worker died after falling from the roof of a building at the University of Kentucky.Media reports say 47-year-old Michael Persichitti died after falling about 30 feet Friday at the site of...
Jan 13 2017 // A woman whose job it was to make change for cashiers at UAB Hospital dining areas has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after she was accused of stealing $1.1 million.Al.com reports that Kyejuana Avery was also ordered...
Jan 10 2017 // A California community college has paid a $28,000 ransom after a hacker took student data hostage.The Los Angeles Daily News reported that 1,800 Los Angeles Valley College teachers and staff were locked out of their...
Jan 10 2017 // A former theater professor at Dixie State University in Utah who was found not guilty of assaulting a student is suing university faculty and staff members for more than $22 million over his termination.The Spectrum of St....
Jan 9 2017 // Regents system universities in Kansas are reviewing earthquake insurance policies after several quakes were reported in the state this year.The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the universities’ chief financial...
Jan 6 2017 // Chicago State University has agreed to pay $1.3 million to end a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a former administrator. The university’s insurance carrier will pay $847,000 in back pay and other compensation to...
Jan 3 2017 // Regents universities in Kansas are reviewing earthquake insurance policies after several quakes were reported in the state this year.The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the universities’ chief financial officers...
Dec 30 2016 // Anthony F. Markel, vice chairman of the board at the Markel Corporation will be honored by The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University as the School of Risk Management’s 2016 Insurance...
Dec 27 2016 // Neighbors of Dartmouth College property where for years the Ivy League school disposed of mice and other small animals used in science experiments say they fear pollution from the site has contaminated their groundwater...
Dec 22 2016 // The University of Cincinnati has settled a federal lawsuit filed by a student who said she was told she had to sit and work with other female students and not with male students in a physics lab. U.S. District Judge Susan...
Dec 20 2016 // The Academy of Art University in San Francisco has agreed to a $60 million settlement with the city aimed at bringing the school’s many illegally converted buildings into compliance with local rules.The San Francisco...
Dec 15 2016 // Allstate Insurance Co., the nation’s largest publicly-held personal lines insurer, is continuing its drive into new technology, agreeing to a multi-year research project with the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at...
Dec 9 2016 // A Stanford University graduate student claimed in a federal lawsuit that the school failed to adequately investigate and discipline a former student who was a “known sexual predator” while attending the college...
Dec 7 2016 // Rolling Stone magazine urged a federal judge on Monday to overturn the verdict of a jury, which found that the publication and a reporter defamed a University of Virginia administrator with their botched story about a gang...
Dec 6 2016 // A federal appeals court has resurrected an excessive-force lawsuit by a woman who was shot by a University of Arizona police officer six year ago as she held a knife in her hand outside her home.Amy Hughes had lost her...
Dec 5 2016 // The Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility at Rutgers Law School in Camden, N.J., in collaboration with United Policyholders, is seeking to improve homeowners insurance nationally through its recently launched national...
Dec 5 2016 // Regardless of one’s political leaning, the 2016 presidential election offered bold dialogue. Many criticized the president-elect for brash comments and a disregard for political correctness. If recent news reports...
Dec 1 2016 // A female student contends in a court filing that Kansas State University’s failure to investigate the rape of another woman allowed the same alleged assailant to sexually assault her.The accusations were levied in...
Nov 29 2016 // Emporia State University received the highest number of votes by percentage of students enrolled to win the initial “Don’t Text #Just Drive” fall contest, according to the Kansas Insurance...