All the headlines from our Manufacturing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 7 2016 // Current and former employees are suing Oshkosh Corp. subsidiary Pierce Manufacturing and calling for a jury trial in the case related to compensation.Oshkosh Northwestern Media reports that the class-action lawsuit accuses...
Mar 3 2016 // Virginia-based independent insurance brokerage, AHT Insurance, has expanded its Chicago operations with the addition of Adam Billmeyer as a risk consultant in the manufacturing practice. Opened in 2014, AHT’s Chicago...
Feb 24 2016 // Mars Inc. has recalled chocolate bars and other products in 55 countries, mainly in Europe, due to choking risk after a piece of plastic was found in a Snickers bar in Germany.All of the recalled products, which include...
Feb 22 2016 // British corporate leaders will likely vote for the U.K. to remain a part of the European Union, according to lobby groups for business, manufacturing and financial services.The Institute of Directors said the deal reached...
Feb 5 2016 // New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company’s stellar financial strength rating has been downgraded a notch by A.M. Best, based on concerns about its underwriting and operating performance.The workers’...
Jan 29 2016 // Repeatedly, we have described 2015 as the “year the future arrived for insurance.” Across the board, we saw significant changes in how carriers thought about the impact of new technology and innovation.It was...
Jan 25 2016 // With food recalls on the rise and the threat to food security growing, food manufacturers are going to want to know more details about farmers’ and ranchers’ food safety and security practices, an agribusiness...
Jan 25 2016 // Hilary Rowen, a partner in the law firm of Sedgwick LLP in Sacramento, Calif., for the last three years has been analyzing and following the insurance issues relating to the emergence of autonomous vehicles, particularly...
Jan 18 2016 // America’s system for ensuring that medical devices are safe failed at every turn when dirty endoscopes began spreading deadly superbugs, according to a Senate investigation released today.The report, from Senator...
Jan 15 2016 // U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigations of cyber attacks on the nation’s critical manufacturing sector nearly doubled in the year ended Sept. 30, according to the agency.The Department of Homeland...
Jan 13 2016 // Building on its expertise in technology, Israel is emerging as a leader in the race to keep cars secure and prevent the nightmare scenario of a hacker commandeering your vehicle.Most cars today are equipped with some level...
Jan 12 2016 // Editor’s note: To hear the full interview click on the podcast above or visit www.insuarncejournal.tv.Hilary Rowen, a partner in the law firm of Sedgwick LLP in Sacramento, Calif., for the last three years, has been...
Jan 11 2016 // With food recalls on the rise and the threat to food security growing, food manufacturers are going to want to know more details about farmers’ and ranchers’ food safety and security practices, an agribusiness...
Dec 27 2015 // From 2010 to 2012, Honda Motor Co. said it made multiple attempts to notify the owner of a 2001 Accord that the car’s air bag was faulty and needed replacing.Last July, with the car sold to another person and repairs...
Dec 22 2015 // The answer: No one knows. But plaintiff’s lawyers are salivating at the prospects for big paydays from such accidents. If computers routinely crash, they say, then so will cars operated by them. And with no one...
Dec 17 2015 // Eleven contract workers were injured Tuesday in a boiler accident at chemical manufacturer Axiall Corp.’s Natrium plant in West Virginia’s Northern Panhandle, the company said.The company said in a statement...
Dec 11 2015 // A central Ohio wire manufacturer where two workers were injured in separate accidents has been cited for 25 safety violations by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.OSHA cited Columbus-based ITC...
Nov 16 2015 // Consider the scenario: A family of three suffers an accident and needs to replace several parts on their car. It’s an expensive ordeal. In our current system, drivers are forced to rely largely on replacement parts...
Nov 12 2015 // A crane’s safety latch failed and 1,000 pounds of equipment fell on a man below and injured him as he worked at a TimkenSteel Corp. Ohio factory, according to federal safety officials.For the second time in a year,...
Nov 10 2015 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co., a policyholder-owned company, recently awarded a dividend of $629,849 to the National Federation of Independent Businesses Manufacturing (NFIB) safety group.The dividend was earned based on the...