All the headlines from our Universities Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 30 2010 // BP payout should far exceed what Exxon spent on Valdez The company’s $20 billion fund may not be enough Accountability may take years if not decades to assess Many federal laws allow civil, criminal liability From a...
Jun 25 2010 // Aon Benfield announced that it has signed an exclusive partnership with the University of Cologne – “a leading research centre with a long record of wind storms diagnostics, extreme weather modeling and impact...
Jun 9 2010 // Central Michigan University is asking for $174,294 from an ex- basketball player and her lawyer over their failed sex discrimination complaint involving coach Sue Guevara.The Saginaw News says the university asked U.S....
Jun 3 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) and Tarrant County College have initiated the Insurance Representative Certificate (IRC) program. The self-study, self-paced virtual program prepares individuals for the...
May 6 2010 // The Ohio School Plan (OSP), a group that provides insurance and risk management solutions to Ohio public school entities and boards of developmental disabilities, approved the decision to include community colleges into...
May 5 2010 // A student who says he was falsely accused of rape by a Brown University classmate can move forward with his lawsuit against the Ivy League school, a federal judge ruled.William McCormick III filed a federal lawsuit that...
Apr 16 2010 // Jeffery Stone and his wife Janette Diller Stone, one-time operators of a now-defunct New York investment firm called Crescent Fund, are not on any government most wanted list. And they aren’t exactly hiding, either....
Apr 15 2010 // Local multicultural college students from the San Francisco Greater Bay Area will have a chance to win scholarships and internship opportunities in the financial services field as part of a newly expanded scholarship...
Apr 15 2010 // Kansas State University researchers are discovering the challenges aging creates for drivers.To help improve traffic safety, K-State engineers identified the characteristics of older drivers in Kansas and the types of...
Apr 7 2010 // Five insurance and risk management students at the University of Texas at San Antonio have been awarded $10,000 in scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT).The UTSA scholarship recipients for 2010 are Su-Whey...
Apr 5 2010 // A jury has awarded a Massachusetts couple $1.6 million in a malpractice lawsuit over the death of their son on a college basketball court. Antwoine Key, a 22-year-old senior at Eastern Connecticut State University,...
Apr 5 2010 // Insurance? That’s all straight commission sales,” responded a student at Madison Area Technical College when his instructor suggested he consider an insurance class. Madison College, in Madison, Wis., is...
Apr 5 2010 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) recently named 18 funded and 10 unfunded consumer liaison representatives for 2010. Seven of the funded consumer representatives participated in the program in...
Apr 1 2010 // BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. announced a $50,000 gift to Marshall University to benefit the Lewis College of Business.The contribution will further the development of an Insurance and Risk Management program at the...
Mar 29 2010 // A jury has awarded a Massachusetts couple $1.6 million in a malpractice lawsuit over the death of their son on a college basketball court.Antwoine Key, a 22-year-old senior at Eastern Connecticut State University,...
Mar 22 2010 // Officials at a South Carolina university say a fire in a building that featured high-tech classrooms will cost at least $4.5 million to repair. The Herald of Rock Hill reported that Winthrop University officials said it...
Mar 9 2010 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) recently named 18 funded and 10 unfunded consumer liaison representatives for 2010. Seven of the funded consumer representatives participated in the program in...
Mar 9 2010 // Brian Durkin’s academic resume is longer than most. Durkin, who has an associate’s degree in accounting, will graduate from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia this spring with a bachelor of science...
Mar 7 2010 // The wholesale insurance industry association, American Association of Managing General Agents, has created a Distinguished Chair in Risk Management and Insurance at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State...
Mar 7 2010 // Lockton Dunning Benefits appointed Sheri Pixley to the newly created position of executive vice president and practice leader of the Dallas-based health and welfare practice. Pixley has been involved in consulting with...