Finance Law

JACKSONVILLE, FL, Jan 05, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) – Fortegra Financial Corporation /quotes/zigman/3046487/quotes/nls/frf FRF -2.68% today announced that the company has expanded its relationship with Hancock Holding Company /quotes/zigman/73088/quotes/nls/hbhc HBHC +1.38% . Fortegra has extended its marketing agreement with Harrison Finance, a subsidiary of Hancock Holding, for three additional years. In addition, Fortegra has acquired [...]

Washington, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Legal Education in Crisis. That could have been the theme of the Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) annual gathering this week in Washington, D.C., given the developments of 2011. Last year, two law schools admitted they reported false data on incoming classes to help boost their rankings. Meanwhile, three [...]

More than 700 new laws went into affect Jan. 1 in California covering a wide range of subjects including animal abuse, school and cyber bullying, firearms, caffeinated beer, tanning beds, cold medications and child safety seats. A few of the new laws are as follows: Teaching gay and lesbian history in public schools is now [...]

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GULFPORT, Miss., Jan 5, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) – Hancock Holding Company /quotes/zigman/73088/quotes/nls/hbhc HBHC +2.31% will announce fourth quarter 2011 financial results on Thursday, January 26, 2012 after the market closes. Management will host a conference call for analysts and investors at 9:00 a.m. Central Daylight Time on Friday, January 27, 2012 to review the [...]

Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org Last year saw a handful of important cases related to university faculty First Amendment rights in the courts. Particularly, a number of cases dealt with the application of the United States Supreme Court case Garcetti v. Ceballos, 547 U.S. 410 (2006). Yesterday marked the first day of the annual meeting of the [...]

Figures published last year showed almost 20,000 youngsters are now being educated in “supersized” primaries of at least 800 pupils – a rise of 43 per cent in just 12 months. Niall Bolger, Sutton chief executive, said the council had already been forced to spend £7m to create additional classes for pupils starting school in [...]

By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff A growing number of East Coast small businesses expect stable or improving revenue performance in the early 2012 despite a general lack of optimism about the US economy, a new survey from TD Bank concludes. Small businesses in the Boston area tended to be slightly more optimistic than their counterparts [...]

JACKSONVILLE, FL–(Marketwire – Jan 5, 2012) – Fortegra Financial Corporation (NYSE: FRF) today announced that the company has expanded its relationship with Hancock Holding Company (NASDAQ: HBHC). Fortegra has extended its marketing agreement with Harrison Finance, a subsidiary of Hancock Holding, for three additional years. In addition, Fortegra has acquired Magna Insurance Company from Hancock [...]

  A Tennessee judge has been urged by the American Bar Association not to order the ABA to rescind its accreditation denial of Lincoln Memorial University’s law school. The law school filed an antitrust lawsuit last month. The ABA, in a response brief, said that the request for a temporary restraining order by the Duncan [...]