Insurance
Budget & Finance
Fearful Teachers Buy Liability Insurance
More teachers are buying liability insurance in the event they are accused of wrongdoing or end up in court.
Budget & Finance
Workplace Assault Insurance Marketed to School Personnel
The Horace Mann Life Insurance Co. has gone national with a product whose time, it maintains, has come: assault insurance for educators.
Student Well-Being & Movement
States Move Swiftly on Child-Insurance Front
When lawmakers in Illinois emerge from this year's legislative session shortly, they may be heard singing the praises of their newly adopted comprehensive child-health-care program.
Education
Asbestos Insurance: E.P.A. Analysis Finds Little Worry but Little Coverage
Many schools are hiring inadequately insured consultants to help them comply with the federal asbestos law, and so could be creating serious liability problems for themselves years in the future, the findings of an unreleased federal study suggest.
Education
Liability-Insurance Crisis Seen Ebbing, Schools Act To Cope
The opening for business last January of School, College, and University Underwriters Ltd.--SCUUL for short--was one of several recent signals to educators that the liability-insurance crisis may be reaching manageable, if far from ideal, proportions.
Education
Liability-Insurance Crisis Deepening
Despite growing public attention, the nation's liability-insurance crisis appears to be deepening, with officials from day-care centers, schools, and municipalities reporting in recent weeks that obstacles to affordable coverage remain formidable.
Education
States, Municipalities Act To Stem Insurance Woes
Lawmakers and activists at the state and national level are moving to counter the serious liability-insurance problems facing school districts and other public entities.
Education
Drive To Rid Schools of Asbestos Jeopardized by Insurance Woes
Millions of dollars worth of asbestos-abatement work in schools across the country is in jeopardy because insurance companies are refusing to underwrite the activities of those involved in the work, according to government and industry officials.