What’s New: In Brief.

Steven Stieber will be honoured with the Ontario Bar Association’s 2009 Award for Excellence in Insurance Law on Apr. 28, 2009.
Stieber is being recognized for his outstanding achievements in the practice of insurance law and his contributions to the legal profession over many years.
He is currently partner in the law firm of Stieber Berlach LLP. His practice is concentrated in the area of professional liability, directors’ and officers’ liability, general liability and property coverage, municipal liability, products liability, class actions, environmental liability and toxic torts.
“It seems only fitting that someone who is so highly regarded by his peers in the insurance bar be the recipient of this year’s award,” John Aikins, chair of the OBA’s insurance law section, said in the release. “We look forward to honouring him at our April 28th dinner.”
For more information visit www.oba.org/pd.

Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) is providing funding for traffic safety research to University of Regina graduate students.
SGI is donating Cdn$100,000 over four years to renew the SGI Graduate Student Traffic Safety Research Scholarship at the university.
The scholarship is intended to create opportunities for graduate students to produce thesis-based research on engineering or human factor issues related to traffic safety, SGI notes.
“The research produced by the scholarship recipients is shared with SGI, providing the Crown Corporation with valuable tools and insight into traffic safety issues in Saskatchewan,” Dr. Rod Kelln, dean of the faculty of graduate studies and research, said in the release. “Through its generous gift, SGI is allowing our graduate students to participate in practical research that not only benefits our university and SGI, but the province as a whole.”
The scholarship has been used in a study of traffic-weather relationships and highway traffic peaking due to statutory holidays.