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Public colleges and universities are not immune to the legal onslaught that sometimes follows when tragedy strikes. Evolving state statutes could place more legal responsibility on schools.

Virginia Tech to distribute $7 million of donated funds to families.

Supporters of pooling mechanisms to buy insurance say they've been one of the insurance industry's big success stories.

Higher-education risks still include drinking problems and mental-health issues while universities also grapple with emerging risks from research and technology.

A listing of some of the nation's top higher education institutions, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

Public-sector risk management has its own twists and turns, unique from those in the private sector. So it makes perfect sense that these professionals would develop their own trade groups.