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Stevenson, CT · Education
The National Law Review
NY Appeals Court Affirms Universities Owed Broad Defense Coverage Despite Certain Excluded Losses
Hunton’s insurance coverage team recently secured an important appellate victory for clients St. John’s University and Hofstra University in a coverage dispute arising from United Educators Insurance Company’s (“UE”) categorical refusal to defend or indemnify the universities in student class action lawsuits filed after the universities transitioned to remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision is significant both for colleges and universities facing pandemic-related tuition refund suits, and for policyholders more broadly. It reaffirms a core principle of insurance law: a liability insurer’s defense duties require a defense even where some of the claims or relief sought in the underlying lawsuit may not be covered. Rather, where the allegations create a reasonable possibility of covered loss, the insurer must defend the entire lawsuit. Background: Pandemic-Related Student Lawsuits and the Coverage Dispute During the COVID-19 pandemic, St. John’s University and Hofstra University, like many institutions across the country, closed their campuses and shifted to remote instruction to protect students, faculty, and staff. The Universities were later named as defendants in putative class action lawsuits brought by students who alleged that they had not received the full benefit of the in-person educational experience for which they had paid. The students sought
yonkerstimes.com
Iona Prep Becomes 1st Accelerate Sports Network School in New York
Newly launched ASN to feature Gaels football, mirror NJ’s Super Football Conference Network for the metro area. Three Catholic State titles in the last five years have certainly helped the No. 1 New York high school football team accelerate its rise to national prominence. Now this fall, Iona Preparatory School’s football program will partner with Accelerate Media and its newly-launched Accelerate Sports Network (ASN) to provide enhanced broadcast, storytelling and sponsorship opportunities to its bevy of scholar-athletes.
longisland.com
Assemblyman Ed Ra Presents Capitol-Flown Flags To Local Elementary Schools
In celebration of Flag Day, Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) presented four American flags, each flown over the New York State Capitol, to local elementary schools in the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District. Ra attended Manor Oaks School’s Flag Day assembly, where students learned about the symbolism of...
WashingtonExaminer
The blue state model continues to falter
In our recent comparison of New York and Florida, written in response to left-wing Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s strange trolling of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, we briefly touched on how the Sunshine State is eating the Empire State’s lunch on education. Florida isn’t alone in this respect. Much has been made of the extraordinary “Mississippi […]
Business Insurance
Insurer must defend COVID-19 tuition refund suits: Appeals court
Hofstra University and St. John’s University can continue seeking coverage for COVID-19 tuition refund lawsuits because the underlying complaints sought damages beyond the return of tuition and fees, a New York appeals court ruled Tuesday. In Hofstra University et al. v. United Educators, the Appellate Division of the New...
Herald Community Newspapers
Oceanside High School students share career readiness success at statewide conference
Oceanside High School students Shawn Lubinda and Bryce Levine took center stage at the 2026 New York State Career Readiness Educators Association conference last month, sharing firsthand how work-based learning experiences have helped shape their futures and prepare them for life beyond graduation. Held at the Long Island Marriott in...
Yahoo Sports
Live updates, score for New York's NYSPHSAA Section VIII semifinal; Carle Place vs. Oyster Bay
Live updates, score for New York's NYSPHSAA Section VIII semifinal; Carle Place vs. Oyster Bay originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. New York's NYSPHSAA Section VIII B semifinals are set. On one side of the bracket, the Carle Place...
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Anti-Israel rhetoric fuels antisemitism in NY's schools | Opinion
Two incidents in two local high schools in recent weeks have highlighted the increase in antisemitism in America and around the globe.At Scarsdale High School, flyers put up by the student-run Israeli Culture Club promoting a gathering to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day were torn down and stuffed into bathroom urinals. The school board president’s own daughter reposted a photo of a desecrated flyer on Instagram with the caption, “keep up the good work.” Then, just weeks later and less than thirty miles away, a teacher at Nyack High School straightening up her classroom at the end of the day discovered a swastika drawn on one of her desks. These are not random acts by disturbed loners. They are part of a broader trend resulting from the moral conflict over Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza and now in the war with Iran. We cannot conflate Israel's actions with Judaism While that debate is essential, conflating Israel’s actions with Judaism in general is dangerous and lazy. From politician’s podiums, Ivy League college campuses and Hollywood’s red carpets, America’s elites have espoused rhetoric that sows contempt and normalizes hate. These are the very adults who shape our culture and our politics.