All the headlines from our Manufacturing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jun 13 2019 // Three U.S. companies have been slapped with a wrongful death and products liability lawsuit for manufacturing products linked to London’s Grenfell tower fire. The fire, which has been called the worst UK residential...
May 31 2019 // New Hampshire has sued eight companies including 3M and the DuPont Co. for damage it says has been caused by a class of potentially toxic chemicals found in pizza boxes, fast-food wrappers and drinking water.The substances...
May 17 2019 // Europe’s biggest insurers are on the hook for as much as $450 million from a pair of airline crashes involving Boeing Co. 737 Max planes.Munich Re reckons it could pay 150 million euros ($168 million), an estimate...
May 8 2019 // Iowa’s high court has ruled in favor of a workers’ compensation insurer in a case in which a group of employees and former employees of a manufacturing plant alleged that the insurer failed to protect workers...
May 6 2019 // U.S. health authorities will allow a type of breast implant linked to a rare form of cancer to stay on the market, saying its risks do not warrant a national ban.But the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it is...
Apr 24 2019 // Dozens of lawsuits have been filed against drug makers and sellers over widely prescribed generic heart medications tainted with potential carcinogens, the first claims in what some lawyers expect to be a wave of...
Apr 16 2019 // Cal/OSHA has cited two employers more than $300,000 after a temporary worker lost two fingers cleaning machinery at a food manufacturing facility in Los Angeles, Calif.On Oct. 2, 2018, the employee for Priority Workforce...
Apr 12 2019 // A federal workplace safety agency is fining a south Mississippi plastics manufacturer after an employee lost four fingers. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Wednesday that it’s citing...
Apr 10 2019 // Having failed in Connecticut state court to block all claims brought by families of children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, gun manufacturer Remington Arms Co. has signaled it will appeal its case to...
Apr 4 2019 // Microsoft Corp.’s captive insurer has lost its bid to recover $175 million in costs the software maker said it incurred in 2013 to replace memory chips that a manufacturer failed to deliver because of a fire at the...
Apr 1 2019 // A plant explosion in China’s Jiangsu province killed seven people on Sunday, authorities said, the second deadly blast in the province this month as Beijing begins a nationwide industrial safety inspection...
Mar 28 2019 // A wood pallet manufacturer in Beloit, Wisconsin, has been cited by workplace safety regulators for safety and health violations and now faces more than $188,000 in penalties.The U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Mar 27 2019 // U.S. regulators plan to revamp rules governing how medicines are manufactured, in an effort to ensure the safety of the nation’s drug supply as recalls of contaminated imports from developing countries...
Mar 22 2019 // Coalition, a cyber insurance company for small and midsize businesses, has launched a full-spectrum coverage to insure manufacturers against security failures and data breaches.The Coalition policy encompasses the...
Mar 19 2019 // Manufacturers have a duty to warn about potential dangers of parts with asbestos that were later added onto their products by third parties, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.The ruling, in a case involving sailors...