Latest Manufacturing Headlines
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P/C Insurers Can Handle Chinese Drywall Costs, Says Moody’s
Apr 5 2010 // Property/casualty insurers are expected to continue to handle costs for defective Chinese drywall claims in the normal course of business, according to a rating analyst with Moody’s Investors Service. Losses from...
P/C Insurers Can Handle Chinese Drywall Costs, Says Moody’s
Mar 26 2010 // Property/casualty insurers are expected to continue to handle costs for defective Chinese drywall claims in the normal course of business, according to a rating analyst with Moody’s Investors Service. Losses from...
Navigators Integrates Pollution, General Liability for Manufacturers
Mar 22 2010 // The Navigators Group’s principal underwriting agency subsidiary, Navigators Management Co., Inc., has launched a Premises, Products and Pollution Liability insurance policy or “NP3,” which is designed to...
Supreme Court to Rule If Vaccine Makers Are Immune from Lawsuits
Mar 9 2010 // The Supreme Court said Monday that it would decide whether a federal law protects vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits in state court seeking damages for alleged design defects. The high court agreed to hear a Pennsylvania...
Markel Enhances Manufactured Home Program; Offers Web Servicing
Mar 5 2010 // Markel American Insurance Co. has released an enhanced Manufactured Home Program with new coverage options. Also, the program can now be managed on Markel’s Web-based policy administration system, MAGIC. The...
Special Reuters Report: Inside Toyota’s Epic Breakdown
Feb 10 2010 // Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s most dominant and profitable automaker, was not accustomed to outsiders telling it what to do, let alone some obscure bureaucrat from the United States, whose own car industry was on...
Louisiana AG Sues Chinese Drywall Manufacturers and Distributors
Jan 14 2010 // Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell filed suit in Orleans Parish against multiple Knauf entities, other international and domestic manufacturers, distributors, importers of alleged toxic Chinese drywall. Several...
Special Reuters Report: America’s Route to Recovery
Dec 29 2009 // When Bob Hagan was a boy in Youngstown, Ohio, people equated the coke dust they swept off their doorsteps each day with opportunity, for it came from the steel mills that built this city. After graduating from high school...
Independent Business Group Earns More Than $335K in Texas Mutual Dividends
Dec 2 2009 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $335,220 dividend to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) workers’ compensation purchasing group for manufacturers. The group has earned more than $878,000...
10 Things to Know About the Construction Industry Supply Chain
Nov 15 2009 // Construction activities affect nearly every aspect of the U.S. economy. Here are 10 things worth knowing about the construction industry: 1. Contribution to GDP In 2008, the construction industry’s contribution to...
How the Great Recession is Changing the American Workplace
Oct 5 2009 // Going to work may never be the same again: the Great Recession has reshaped the American workplace and work force in ways that will last years, if not longer. The work force is graying as college graduates can’t find...
European Safety Agency Orders More Airbus Speed Sensor Checks
Sep 24 2009 // European safety officials have ordered checks on certain Airbus speed sensors supplied by U.S. manufacturer Goodrich, just weeks after clamping down on similar equipment from France’s Thales. Potentially faulty speed...
The Coverage Conundrum in Chinese Drywall Claims
Sep 21 2009 // The Latest Mass Tort Unless you live in Florida or Louisiana, or regularly read the Insurance Journal, you may only now be hearing about the latest mass tort craze: Chinese-Manufactured Drywall (often simply referred to as...
Text: Sen. Baucus Introduces to Senate Financial Committee Health Bill
Sep 16 2009 // The following announcment was released by the office of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.). Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D,Mont.) today introduced the America’s Healthy Future...
Marsh Teams with Munich Re for Asian Solar Power Coverage
Sep 2 2009 // Marsh and Munich Re have joined forces to launch a new product guarantee insurance solution designed for the expanding solar panel manufacturing sector in Asia, which Marsh described as the “the first of its kind in...
Consumer Opinions of Car Makers, Brokerages, Banks, Health Insurers Fall
Aug 18 2009 // Unsurprisingly, the industries whose reputations have been most badly hurt in the last 12 months are car manufacturers (down 31 points), banks (down 24 points), and investment and brokerage firms (down 27 points),...
Three Commercial Property Endorsements Every Client Should Have
Aug 13 2009 // Several weeks ago, MyNewMarkets.com posted a two-part series regarding coverage gaps and selling to those gaps. “Gaps That Sell” and “Three Homeowners’ Policy Gaps that Sell” detailed the...
Survey: Midwest Economy Improving
Aug 4 2009 // The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same...
EPA Testing Yards for Asbestos Near Former Spokane Factory
Jul 6 2009 // Crews are testing residential yards near W.R. Grace & Co.’s former insulation factory in Spokane, Wa., for asbestos fibers that can cause cancer. The work was prompted by the recent declaration of Libby, Mont.,...
Marsh Urges UK Manufacturers to ‘Leverage Risk Management’
Jun 17 2009 // Marsh’s UK office has issued a report – Manufacturing Industry Risk Footprint – which urges UK manufacturers to “put robust and flexible risk management systems in place to identify, mitigate and...
