July 16, 2026Texas Contractor Fined $343K Following Excavation Collapse
A U.S. Department of Labor investigation concluded that a Houston utility construction company exposed employees to safety hazards after an excavation collapse hospitalized a worker. The department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration init …

July 16, 2026Northeast Texas Counties Work to Form Groundwater District
More than a dozen East Texas counties are working to create a groundwater conservation district that would prevent over-pumping water from the aquifer below their communities. On Tuesday, Gregg County Commissioners voted to approve a resolution addin …

July 16, 2026In Michigan, 100K Live Downstream of Old, Decrepit Dams
Jonathan Korbecki was relaxing at home on the Thornapple River one rainy February night when the fire marshal knocked on his door, warning the nearby Labarge Dam may fail and send a wall of water his way. Hundreds of yards …

July 16, 2026Despite 2024 Ruling, Appeals Court Won’t Budge in Golden Corral COVID Case
The North Carolina Supreme Court in 2024 famously bucked the trend on COVID-19 business-interruption coverage, finding that an insurer owed coverage to a restaurant that was forced to close during the pandemic. But that ruling is not enough to overtu …

July 16, 2026People Moves: IMT Adds Hanraads and Cook to Global Risk & Benefits Practice
IMA Financial Group has expanded its Global Risk & Benefits leadership team with the appointment of two national practice leaders, strengthening the firm’s ability to support multinational organizations seeking coordinated strategies to address r …

July 16, 2026Michigan AI Data Center Project Sparks Debate Over Farmland Protection
From Michigan Avenue, Saline Township looks like any other farming community, with its corn and soybean fields, silos and grain elevators. Just down the road, though, cranes reach above towering fences at the site of a $16 billion project — …

July 16, 2026China Sends Robots Into the World to Learn How to Be Human
In an industrial park on the outskirts of Beijing, a humanoid arm picks up a bag of Lay’s potato chips and places it neatly along a row of snacks on a shelf. Nearby, a worker films himself grabbing cushions off …

July 16, 2026In a Shifting Digital-Risk Landscape, Is Your GL Policy Leaving You Exposed?
The Shifting Landscape of Digital Risk: For years, many businesses have operated under the assumption that their general liability (GL) policy might offer a safety net for the physical consequences of a cyber event. However, since 2014 the ground ben …

July 16, 2026Iran, US Step Up Attacks, Though Release of American May Signal Path to Climbdown
Iran and the United States exchanged intensified fire on Thursday in a week-long escalation that has all but torn up last month’s truce, though Iran’s release of a U.S. citizen pointed towards a path to avert the resumption of all-out …

July 16, 2026New Cases Slow in New York City Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak
A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in a New York City neighborhood now counts 60 cases, but new diagnoses are slowing, health officials said Tuesday. They reported progress on inspections for the disease-causing bacteria — finding traces in dozens of b …