Latest Manufacturing Headlines

All the headlines from our Manufacturing Topic Page, ordered by recency.

ACE Launches New Multi-line Products to Drive UK, Ireland Growth

May 19 2010 // ACE UK today announced the launch of a suite of multi-line products targeting medium to large sized businesses in four industry sectors: “professional companies or partnerships with one or more overseas branches,...

Who Pays?

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...

Who’s Going to Pay?

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...

Insurer Wins Appeal in Lead-Contaminated Chinese Toy Case

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...

Federal Judge Awards $164K in Damages in Chinese Drywall Case

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...

Aon Report Concludes Aerospace Insurance Costs Continue to Decrease

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...

Who’s Going to Pay?

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...

Who Pays?

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...

Insurer Wins Appeal in Lead-Contaminated Chinese Toy Case

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...

Two Hurt in Fire at Pennsylvania Pipe Manufacturing Plant

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...

Hanover Specialty Industrial Expands to New High-Hazard Classes

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...

P/C Insurers Can Handle Chinese Drywall Costs, Says Moody’s

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...

P/C Insurers Can Handle Chinese Drywall Costs, Says Moody’s

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...

P/C Insurers Can Handle Chinese Drywall Costs, Says Moody’s

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...

Navigators Integrates Pollution, General Liability for Manufacturers

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...

Supreme Court to Rule If Vaccine Makers Are Immune from Lawsuits

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...

Markel Enhances Manufactured Home Program; Offers Web Servicing

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...

Special Reuters Report: Inside Toyota’s Epic Breakdown

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...

Louisiana AG Sues Chinese Drywall Manufacturers and Distributors

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...

Special Reuters Report: America’s Route to Recovery

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...