CRC Group Acquires Assets of Washington D.C.’s Federal Employee Defense Services February 2, 2021
CRC Group, a national wholesale distributor of specialty insurance products, has acquired the assets of Washington D.C.-based Federal Employee Defense Services (FEDS), a niche managing general underwriter specializing in professional liability coverage for federal government employees and contractors.
FEDS is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and will continue to be led by President Tony Vergnetti. It will become part of CRC Group’s Program Division and will continue to operate under its current brand name. CRC Group and FEDS will work to integrate operations.
The terms of the sale were not disclosed.
Colorado State University Global Names Dr. Paul Savory Provost
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As Provost, Dr. Savory will drive academic innovation and student professional success for the nation’s first fully online, state university.
Dr. Paul Savory joins CSU Global as Provost for the 100% online university
As provost, Dr. Savory will serve as the Chief Academic Officer to help ensure the continued focus on providing modern learners with high-quality, career-relevant academic offerings that deliver workplace success with a quantifiable return on investment. AURORA, Colo. (PRWEB) January 18, 2021 Colorado State University Global (CSU Global) President Pamela Toney has named Dr. Paul Savory to become the institution’s next provost. His appointment is effective Jan. 18, succeeding Interim Provost Dr. Angela Hernquist, who will assist in the transition through her new role as the university’s Assistant Vice President of Aca
By Natalie Alms
Democratic lawmakers weren t able to block the Schedule F workforce executive order in the 2021 omnibus funding bill that passed Monday night. Unions, management organizations, governance groups and other federal employee groups had looked to Congress to block the order, which established a new class of confidential and policy-related positions in the excepted service that aren t subject to most civil service protections.
The order still faces a lawsuit from the National Treasury Employees Union. The lawsuit, filed on October 26 in the D.C. district court, names President Donald Trump and Michael Rigas, the acting director for the Office of Personnel Management, as defendants, and it asks the court to declare the executive order unlawful and to prevent Rigas and OPM from implementing it.