Latest Manufacturing Headlines
All the headlines from our Manufacturing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Management Liability for Manufacturers
Jul 18 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: St. Paul Travelers launched a new management liability insurance program for members of the National Association of Manufacturers. The program is administered exclusively by Aon Association Services, a...
Brown & Brown Moves Three Programs to ACE Westchester Speciality Group
Jul 5 2005 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced a program alliance with ACE Westchester Specialty Group. Effective July 1, 2005, ACE Westchester Specialty Group will provide coverage through ACE American Insurance Company and other...
Management Liability for Manufacturers
Jul 4 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: St. Paul Travelers launched a new management liability insurance program for members of the National Association of Manufacturers. The program is administered exclusively by Aon Association Services, a...
Manufacturers’ Liability
Jun 6 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Kansas City-based underwriting manager and claims administrator Euclid Managers LLC launched ProtoType, an insurance product for manufacturers. The product features errors and omissions, Web site...
Miscellaneous E&S
Jun 6 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: CRC Insurance Services, based in Atlanta, Ga., is offering a new E&S market for businesses such as cosmetics manufacturing, playground equipment distributor, skateboard ramp manufacturing,...
St. Paul Travelers, Aon Team on New Management Liability Program
May 17 2005 // St. Paul Travelers has launched a new management liability insurance program for members of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). The program is administered exclusively by Aon Association Services, a division...
The Midland Co. Notes Record-Setting Q1
Apr 21 2005 // The Midland Company, a Cincinnati-based provider of specialty insurance products and services, announced record results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2005. Net income for the quarter was a record $21.5 million, or...
Top 10 Gadgets for High-Tech Insurance Agents & Brokers
Apr 18 2005 // After walking through a client’s office this week, an important epiphany occurred. Noticing Visoneer scanners at every desk exemplified the need and reliance of tech gadgets in the insurance workplace. Not only are...
Vermont Senate Seeks ‘Strict Liability’ for Seed Makers of Genetically Engineered Crops
Apr 3 2005 // The Vermont Senate last week gave preliminary approval to a bill that would make seed manufacturers rather than farmers liable for damages from genetically modified crops. As the measure heads for a final vote, an...
Wyoming Considers Health Care Savings Accounts
Mar 31 2005 // The Wyoming Healthcare Commission is looking at setting up a “Wyo-Care” health care savings account system to help insure workers. The goal is to reduce the number of workers not covered by employer-provided...
R.I. Suit Against Lead Paint Manufacturers Delayed
Mar 22 2005 // Rhode Island’s landmark lawsuit against the lead paint industry has been postponed until Sept. 7, to give former lead company attorneys more time to depose parents or guardians of lead-poisoned children. The case was...
No, Michigan!
Mar 21 2005 // Imagine there’s a 200-pound boulder crushing your left foot underneath. It hurts like all get out and it’s left you immobile. To relieve the unbearable pain and get going again, you gather a group of friends...
Asbestos Litigation: Manufacturing’s Silent Killer
Mar 21 2005 // If you still had doubts about the need for lawmakers to pass serious legal reform, you should have been convinced by the hurried filing of 85 questionable class action lawsuits in just two neighboring Illinois counties in...
GL — Manufacturers, Distributors, Sub-Contractors
Feb 7 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Axiom Specialty Insurance Services is now offering primary products and general liability targeting manufacturers, distributors and commercial sub-contractors. Recently bound accounts include sheet metal...
N.Y. City Law Holds Gun Manufacturers and Dealers Liable to Victims Under Code of Conduct
Jan 7 2005 // The New York City Council has voted to toughen its gun safety laws with legislation that holds gun makers and dealers financially liable to victims of gun violence if the manufacturers or sellers violate a code of...
Texas, Oklahoma Enjoy Lower Workplace Injury, Illness Rates
Jan 3 2005 // For the second year in a row, Oklahoma workplaces set records for lower numbers of recordable injuries and illnesses, as well as lower injury and illness rates, according to the state’s Department of Labor....
OSHA Fines Delaware Clam Factory for Explosives
Oct 26 2004 // Sea Watch International Ltd. has been fined $9,000 by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) because of safety violations at its Milford, Del. clam processing plant where unexploded vintage...
All-Risk Manufacturing
Oct 25 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Commercial property insurer Affiliated FM has added a new all-risk manufacturing policy to its line of products written specifically to meet the property coverage needs of manufacturers. The policy...
All-Risk Manufacturing
Oct 25 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Commercial property insurer Affiliated FM added a new all-risk manufacturing policy to its line of products written specifically to meet the property coverage needs of manufacturers. It includes a...
All-Risk Manufacturing
Oct 25 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Commercial property insurer Affiliated FM has added a new all-risk manufacturing policy to its line of products written specifically to meet the property coverage needs of manufacturers. The policy...
