Latest Manufacturing Headlines
All the headlines from our Manufacturing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Midwest Popcorn Makers Dropping Chemical Linked to Lung Disease
Sep 7 2007 // Four of the nation’s biggest microwave popcorn makers, including one in Iowa, are working to remove a flavoring chemical from their products linked to a lung ailment in popcorn plant workers while reassuring...
Aon: China Must Boost Quality Control to Win Over Product Recall Insurers
Aug 16 2007 // Despite recent product recalls, brokers and insurers are rising to the challenge of insuring the Chinese manufacturing industry for recalls, according to a leading insurance broker and risk management consultant. However,...
Insurance Helps Wis. Manufacturer Falk Reopen After Deadly Blast
Aug 13 2007 // Falk Corp.’s parent company said the mining equipment maker will return by September to production levels it reached before the December blast that killed three workers. Milwaukee-based Rexnord Corp. made the...
How to make insuring tough product liability accounts easier
Jul 23 2007 // Skis, ladders, pacemakers and nutraceuticals may be different products at first glance, but all share challenges in finding coverage. According to Nan Meyer, product manager for Shand-Morahan, and David Rosenburg,...
How to make insuring tough product liability accounts easier
Jul 23 2007 // Skis, ladders, pacemakers and nutraceuticals may be different products at first glance, but all share challenges in finding coverage. According to Nan Meyer, product manager for Shand-Morahan, and David Rosenburg,...
How to make insuring tough product liability accounts easier
Jul 23 2007 // Skis, ladders, pacemakers and nutraceuticals may be different products at first glance, but all share challenges in finding coverage. According to Nan Meyer, product manager for Shand-Morahan, and David Rosenburg,...
Mattress Manufacturers Awake to New U.S. Flammability Standards
Jul 6 2007 // It took less than three minutes for the old mattress to become a flaming inferno. And even inside the safe confines of a Sealy Corp. testing lab in North Carolina, it took a technician armed with a gas mask and fire...
Lawyers, businesses groups tackle Oregon product liability laws
Jul 2 2007 // Business advocates and trial lawyers could be headed for a showdown over Oregon’s product liability laws before the legislative session comes to its scheduled end, and the verdict is anything but certain. The fight...
Ariz. high court to review product liability case
Jul 2 2007 // The Arizona Supreme Court announced it will be reviewing a product liability case in which a lower court decided that all parties in a distribution chain could not be sued equally. At issue in State Farm Insurance v....
Lawyers, businesses groups tackle Oregon product liability laws
Jul 2 2007 // Business advocates and trial lawyers could be headed for a showdown over Oregon’s product liability laws before the legislative session comes to its scheduled end, and the verdict is anything but certain. The fight...
Arizona Supreme Court to Review Product Liability Case
Jun 27 2007 // The Arizona Supreme Court announced it will be reviewing a product liability case in which a lower court decided that all parties in a distribution chain could not be sued equally. At issue in the case, State Farm...
Ohio 3rd State to Reject Cases Against Paint Manufacturers
Jun 26 2007 // Ohio is the third state this month where courts have rejected the lawsuits by parents whose children were made sick by lead paint against the companies that might have made the paint. The state is the third this month...
Milwaukee Court: Paint Manufacturers Not Responsible for Clean Up
Jun 25 2007 // A manufacturer of lead pigments used in paint does not have to pay to cleanup Milwaukee properties contaminated with the now-banned substance, a jury ruled Friday, June 22. The Milwaukee County Circuit jury rejected the...
Lawyers, Business Groups Go to Task over Ore. Product Liability Laws
Jun 25 2007 // Business advocates and trial lawyers could be headed for a showdown over Oregon’s product liability laws before the legislative session comes to its scheduled end next week, and the verdict is anything but...
Tough products don’t need to be an underwriting challenge
Jun 4 2007 // Skis, ladders, pacemakers and nutra-ceuticals may be different products at first glance, but all share challenges in finding coverage. According to Nan Meyer, product manager for Shand-Morahan, and David Rosenburg,...
Tough products don’t need to be an underwriting challenge
Jun 4 2007 // Skis, ladders, pacemakers and nutraceuticals may be different products at first glance, but all share challenges in finding coverage. According to Nan Meyer, product manager for Shand-Morahan, and David Rosenburg,...
Tough products don’t need to be an underwriting challenge
May 21 2007 // Skis, ladders, pacemakers and nutra-ceuticals may be different products at first glance, but all share challenges in finding coverage. According to Nan Meyer, product manager for Shand-Morahan and David Rosenburg,...
Tough products don’t need to be an underwriting challenge
May 21 2007 // To view the “How to Write Insuring Tough Products Liability Accounts” seminar or any of the seminars in the “How to Write” Series, visit: www.insurancejournal.com/seminars for a link to free...
Pet food case raises product recall, ‘special property’ and new coverage
May 21 2007 // The manufacturer of the contaminated pet foods that caused an unknown number of pet deaths and illnesses may want to put the controversy behind it, yet the pet food maker along with insurers, lawyers and other...
Pet food case raises product recall, ‘special property’ and new coverage issues
May 21 2007 // The manufacturer of the contaminated pet foods that caused an unknown number of pet deaths and illnesses may want to put the controversy behind it, yet the pet food maker along with insurers, lawyers and other...
