All the headlines from our Manufacturing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 3 2010 // Things are heating up in the world of Chinese drywall. Courts are issuing opinions, a U.S. consumer products safety agency is recommending gutting homes with the product, and a consumer watchdog group is insisting that...
May 3 2010 // A federal appeals court has ruled that an insurance company has no duty to defend against class action lawsuits filed in Illinois targeting the company’s insured, a Chinese manufacturer of toys sold in the United...
Apr 29 2010 // A federal judge in Louisiana has ordered a manufacturer of faulty drywall from China to pay more than $164,000 to a Louisiana family as result of damage to their home from the wallboard.The ruling is the second time in...
Apr 27 2010 // Accoring to Aon’s Aerospace Insurance Markets Outlook 2010 report, “the price of insurance for the aerospace industry looks set to continue to decline in 2010, for the fourth year in a row. After 2009’s...
Apr 19 2010 // Things are heating up in the world of Chinese drywall. Courts are issuing opinions, a U.S. consumer products safety agency is recommending gutting homes with the product, and a consumer watchdog group is insisting that...
Apr 19 2010 // Things are heating up in the world of Chinese drywall.Courts are issuing opinions, a U.S. consumer products safety agency is recommending gutting homes with the product, and a consumer watchdog group is insisting that...
Apr 16 2010 // A federal appeals court has ruled that an insurance company has no duty to defend against class action lawsuits filed in Illinois targeting the company’s insured, a Chinese manufacturer of toys sold in the United...
Apr 15 2010 // Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say two people were injured, one seriously, in a fire at a pipe manufacturing plant.The fire erupted after a furnace burst around 8:30 a.m. Monday at Victaulic Co. in Lower Macungie...
Apr 9 2010 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. has unveiled expanded offerings for industrial businesses through Hanover Specialty Industrial, which includes Hanover Specialty Industrial Property (HSIP) and Hanover Specialty Insurance...
Apr 5 2010 // Property/casualty insurers are expected to continue to handle costs for defective Chinese drywall claims in the normal course of business, according to a rating analyst with Moody’s Investors Service.Losses from...
Apr 5 2010 // Property/casualty insurers are expected to continue to handle costs for defective Chinese drywall claims in the normal course of business, according to a rating analyst with Moody’s Investors Service.Losses from...
Mar 26 2010 // Property/casualty insurers are expected to continue to handle costs for defective Chinese drywall claims in the normal course of business, according to a rating analyst with Moody’s Investors Service.Losses from...
Mar 22 2010 // The Navigators Group’s principal underwriting agency subsidiary, Navigators Management Co., Inc., has launched a Premises, Products and Pollution Liability insurance policy or “NP3,” which is designed to...
Mar 9 2010 // The Supreme Court said Monday that it would decide whether a federal law protects vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits in state court seeking damages for alleged design defects.The high court agreed to hear a Pennsylvania...
Mar 5 2010 // Markel American Insurance Co. has released an enhanced Manufactured Home Program with new coverage options. Also, the program can now be managed on Markel’s Web-based policy administration system, MAGIC. The...
Feb 10 2010 // Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s most dominant and profitable automaker, was not accustomed to outsiders telling it what to do, let alone some obscure bureaucrat from the United States, whose own car industry was on...
Jan 14 2010 // Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell filed suit in Orleans Parish against multiple Knauf entities, other international and domestic manufacturers, distributors, importers of alleged toxic Chinese drywall. Several...
Dec 29 2009 // When Bob Hagan was a boy in Youngstown, Ohio, people equated the coke dust they swept off their doorsteps each day with opportunity, for it came from the steel mills that built this city.After graduating from high school...
Dec 2 2009 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $335,220 dividend to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) workers’ compensation purchasing group for manufacturers. The group has earned more than $878,000...
Nov 15 2009 // Construction activities affect nearly every aspect of the U.S. economy. Here are 10 things worth knowing about the construction industry:1. Contribution to GDP In 2008, the construction industry’s contribution to...