All the headlines from our Manufacturing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 11 2018 // Global broker JLT Specialty USA announced the appointment of Kirk Bantz as senior vice president. Bantz will work on complex risks for Life Sciences and Manufacturing companies. Bantz has 25 years of insurance and risk...
May 9 2018 // Mike Williams is returning to Chubb to serve as as executive vice president and Manufacturing Industry practice leader. In this role, Williams will lead strategic efforts around mid-market business and relationships with...
Apr 30 2018 // Serious questions linger about the fate of medical marijuana in Iowa as Republican lawmakers find themselves considering an eleventh-hour deal that would expand the program to more patients.The state’s sole...
Apr 30 2018 // A lawsuit against Southwest Airlines Co. has been filed by a passenger who was flying on last week’s flight 1380, in which an engine exploded and one person was killed.The lawsuit claims that since the accident, the...
Apr 27 2018 // New Jersey plastics manufacturer Douglas Stephen Plastics Inc. has been cited for exposing employees to safety and health hazards at its Paterson, N.J., facility and faces penalties of $435,679.The U.S. Department of...
Apr 26 2018 // Wisconsin added the most manufacturing jobs of any state in the first quarter of 2018 and ranks fourth nationally in the number of private sector jobs added in March, the state Department of Workforce Development (DWD)...
Apr 19 2018 // The U.S. government on Tuesday proposed tightening rules governing the amount of prescription opioid painkillers that drugmakers can manufacture in a given year, in hopes of reining in the deadly opioid epidemic.The Drug...
Apr 5 2018 // Delegated authority specialist and Lloyd’s Broker Endeavour Insurance Services has launched a new cyber security coverage program, Ensconce, designed to protect manufacturers from the risk of physical damage caused...
Apr 2 2018 // Arkansas’ attorney general has joined the widening mass of litigation against opioid manufacturers, accusing three drugmakers of promoting addictive painkillers in ways that falsely denied or trivialized their...
Apr 2 2018 // An Ohio auto parts manufacturer has agreed to a settlement that includes a $1 million penalty resulting from workplace health and safety violations, federal safety officials said. The U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Mar 23 2018 // An Ohio auto parts manufacturer has agreed to a settlement that includes a $1 million penalty resulting from workplace health and safety violations, federal safety officials said.The U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Mar 21 2018 // Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said on Tuesday it planned to release patches to fix some of the flaws in its microprocessors pointed out by CTS Labs last week.Israeli cyber security research firm CTS Labs in its...
Mar 16 2018 // A tribe in Oklahoma has filed a lawsuit accusing 26 drug manufacturers and distributors of contributing to the tribe’s opioid epidemic by fraudulently misrepresenting the risks and benefits of addictive...
Feb 28 2018 // We are grateful for friend of the Academy, Christopher J. Boggs, CPCU, ARM, ALCM, LPCS, AAI, APA, CWCA, CRIS, AINS, Executive Director, Big “I” Virtual University who provided this blog series about autonomous...
Feb 19 2018 // Two men have been killed and a third was critically injured in an accident at a Pennsylvania crane manufacturer.State police say the accident happened at Manitowoc Cranes in Shady Grove, about 65 miles southwest of...
Feb 14 2018 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) announced that its Policy Center for commercial and manufactured home policies is live and available for agents to use.TWIA said agents must now use Policy Center for all...
Feb 6 2018 // Two men have been killed and a third was critically injured in an accident at a Pennsylvania crane manufacturer.State police say the accident happened Friday morning at Manitowoc Cranes in Shady Grove, about 65 miles...
Feb 5 2018 // A guardrail manufacturer created a product whose design flaws led to one woman’s death and another’s permanent disfigurement, according to two lawsuits filed Jan. 31.The lawsuits filed in South Carolina and...
Jan 26 2018 // Federal safety officials have cited an Illinois pallet manufacturer for machine safety violations after an employee was injured while conducting maintenance on equipment.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
Jan 22 2018 // Delaware on Friday became the latest state to file a lawsuit accusing corporations of helping fuel the national opioid epidemic, suing a wide range of companies involved in making, distributing and selling prescription...