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A former strength and conditioning coach at Bucknell University was charged Monday in the death of a football player who collapsed during training, according to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office. Calvin “CJ” Dickey Jr. was a freshman training in July 2024 at the university in Pennsylvania when Mark Kulbis told him and other football players to do 100 “up-downs” along with some full-body plank drills, according to the attorney general’s office. Dickey had sickle-cell trait, a medical condition that can increase the risk of serious injury or death following extreme exertion. Dickey, who had been recruited to play lineman positions…

New York City building regulators said the conversion of a Midtown Manhattan office tower into residences must be paused while officials investigate what caused columns inside the building to fail, leading to a massive emergency response that briefly shut down one of the busiest corridors of the city. The Department of Buildings issued a partial stop-work order to halt all non-emergency construction at the site, where steel columns buckled on the 21st floor, causing structural damage on multiple others levels of the building. “Stop all construction activities on entire jobsite except for emergency work,” said the order, which was posted…

Employees who were killed and injured when a powerful tornado struck a Kentucky candle factory in 2021 are not necessarily limited to the workers’ compensation exclusive remedy, a Kentucky appeals court said in a decision that could have far-reaching impact for employers and commercial liability insurers. The Kentucky Court of Appeals found that the workers can sue Mayfield Consumer Products and a supervisor for damages because the employer had threatened the workers with termination and had unlawfully intimidated or restrained them from leaving the building before the EF-4 twister struck. The storm destroyed the entire structure and trapped multiple workers…

Two Florida-based heavyweights in insurance investigations have merged part of their operations, creating what they say is now the largest insurance fraud investigation firm in the country. Command Investigations, based in Lake Mary, Florida, with 900 investigators across all U.S. states, announced it has acquired the insurance investigations division of Jacksonville-headquartered CoventBridge Integrity Systems. CoventBridge, founded in 2016, provides investigative technology and works with 200 carriers, third-party administrators and self-insured companies, the firms said in a news release this week. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Brown Gibbons Lang & Co., an investment bank, was the financial advisor in…

The head of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said July 8 that self-driving car companies must quickly address a “clear pattern” of driverless vehicles interfering with law enforcement and other first responders. Jonathan Morrison, who heads the U.S. vehicle regulatory agency, said in a letter to the industry that NHTSA has documented multiple instances of AVs driving into active emergency scenes, and other incidents when the vehicles “blocked the paths of ambulances and firefighters, or failed to recognize and respond to basic safety conditions like flashing lights, flares, smoke, fire, and traffic cones.” “Let me be clear: the…

UPS never required the detailed inspections needed to spot the problem that led to an engine to fly off one of its planes before it crashed even after Boeing recommended it years earlier, according to new documents posted Wednesday by crash investigators. But UPS said in its own submission to the National Transportation Safety Board that the reason it never required those enhanced bearing inspections inside the pylons that hold the engines to the wings of its MD–11 freighters is because Boeing said incorrectly that the failure of those bearings wouldn’t jeopardize the safety of flight. And the enhanced inspections…

Indian insurance aggregator InsuranceDekho’s parent has selected HSBC Holdings Plc, Morgan Stanley, ICICI Securities Ltd. and IIFL Capital Services Ltd. as advisers to a potential initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter. The offer from Girnar Insurance Brokers Pvt., backed by Investcorp and BNP Paribas Cardif, could launch this year or early 2027, with a target to raise as much as $400 million, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. The IPO is expected to comprise a new stock issuance to raise fresh capital, and a sale of shares by some…

Major coffee trader ECOM Agroindustrial Corp. is pushing for a fivefold increase in the number of growers covered by its specialty weather insurance in Vietnam, where the industry depends on thousands of smallholder farmers increasingly exposed to climate risk. The world’s second-biggest coffee trader is seeking to expand the coverage to 2,500 farmers this year, up from 500, said Laurent Bossolasco, Vietnam-based sustainability manager at ECOM. The company piloted the parametric insurance program five years ago, under which payouts are triggered if it rains too much or too little and farmers don’t have to provide proof of crop losses. Vietnam…

UK water regulator Ofwat found that Severn Trent Plc had “serious failings” in how it deals with wastewater and sewage as part of a broad investigation into practices of utilities in the sector. Ofwat didn’t impose a fine on Severn Trent, which had already identified problems and invested £98 million ($131 million) to address the issues before the regulator opened its case, according to a statement on Wednesday. The regulator has been conducting a broad investigation into how utilities handle wastewater that has so far resulted in more than £300 million of enforcement packages and fines. “Our investigation found serious…

Deere agreed on July 8 to settle a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission and five U.S. states accusing the farm equipment maker of illegally requiring farmers to use its network of authorized dealers for repairs, rather than use independent service providers or do the work themselves. The settlement requires Deere to give farmers and independent providers access to the same equipment diagnostic and other repair resources available to authorized dealers for 10 years, and access to new repair resources once more than 50% of authorized dealers have access. Deere will also instruct authorized dealers to provide those resources to…