All the headlines from our Manufacturing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 23 2019 // The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled that a lawsuit against opioid makers can move forward, overturning a lower court that had dismissed the claims.At issue is whether Tennessee’s Drug Dealer Liability Act...
Sep 19 2019 // New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed Executive Order No. 83, directing the New Jersey Department of Treasury, the Division of Purchase and Property, and the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance to promote...
Sep 4 2019 // An August survey of business supply managers suggested slow or no economic growth over the next several months in nine Midwest and Plains states, in part because of trade skirmishes, according to a newly released...
Aug 27 2019 // A suburban Philadelphia factory owner found guilty of retaliating against employees who cooperated with federal safety inspectors has been ordered to pay more than $1 million in back wages and punitive damages.The...
Aug 22 2019 // Chubb has introduced CoverPlus – a new platform offering expanded liability-driven products tailored to the evolving risks faced by middle market manufacturers from new technologies and processes.CoverPlus offers a...
Aug 20 2019 // A suburban Detroit manufacturing facility has been fined after the death of an employee who fell into vat of sulfuric acid. The Detroit News reports the $32,500 fine was issued by the Michigan Occupational Safety and...
Aug 19 2019 // A $5 million lawsuit has been filed against a Los Angeles County company that sells a product it contends helps protect homes from wildfires.The Santa Barbara County district attorney and the Los Angeles city attorney sued...
Aug 9 2019 // A lawsuit says a rancher, workers and the John Deere farm equipment company are at fault for a wildfire that burned parts of an Oregon Native American reservation.The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs filed the...
Aug 7 2019 // A $5 million lawsuit has been filed against a Los Angeles County company that sells a product it contends helps protect homes from wildfires.The Santa Barbara County district attorney and the Los Angeles city attorney sued...
Aug 7 2019 // The fallout from Volkswagen’s 2015 emissions scandal cost other German car makers billions of dollars in sales, according to new research from Notre Dame University.In 2015, Volkswagen was exposed for bypassing U.S....
Aug 1 2019 // A judge has ordered a Michigan manufacturer to cease operations amid concerns among health officials about a June dumpster fire and the release of chemical clouds.The Daily News of Greenville reports an Ionia County judge...
Aug 1 2019 // A group of U.S. senators on Wednesday questioned the Federal Aviation Administration oversight of Boeing Co.’s 737 MAX as the agency defended the longstanding practice of deferring much of the process of certifying...
Jul 26 2019 // Automakers are accelerating the rollout of technology designed to avoid crashes, but insurance companies are waving a caution flag at consumers eyeing discounts for buying collision-avoiding brakes or automated cruise...
Jul 24 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited HE&M Inc., a Pryor, Oklahoma-based metalworking band saw manufacturer, for exposing employees to fall, machine...
Jul 22 2019 // Oklahoma County has joined over 50 other cities and counties in the state to prosecute drug companies for damages caused by the opioid epidemic.The Oklahoman reports that all three county commissioners voted to approve a...
Jul 19 2019 // Arizona’s top attorney is accusing former opioid manufacturer executives of trying to sell a prescription drug through unethical means.Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced that his office filed a consumer fraud...
Jul 18 2019 // When Californian counties and cities first sued paint makers in 2000, they wanted the companies to pay billions to remove dangerous old lead paint from hundreds of thousands of homes.After a 19-year legal struggle, they...
Jul 1 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Croda Inc. after a chemical release at the New Castle, Del., manufacturing plant exposed workers to ethylene oxide. The...
Jun 27 2019 // The U.S. Chemical Safety Board says the deaths of four workers at a chemical plant in Texas in 2014 were the result of a long list of safety failures in the plant’s operations.The CSB has released its final...
Jun 19 2019 // An online pharmacy told U.S. regulators it found another cancer-causing chemical in widely prescribed blood-pressure pills, raising new questions about a complex global web of companies that produces medicine for millions...