Latest Product Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Product Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
2006: Soft market offers up many new insurance products
Dec 25 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
2006 New Markets Report
Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
Nov 19 2006 // People Tony Boyd joined Dallas-based McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P. as a sales professional in Personal Insurance Professionals, a division of MHBT that serves personal lines clients. Prior to joining MHBT, he was...
E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage
Nov 6 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...
Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverages
Nov 6 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...
Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverage
Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...
Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverages
Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...
E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage
Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...
Thompson Coe Attorneys Recognized as ‘Best Lawyers in America 2007’
Oct 30 2006 // Two attorneys from Texas-based Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons LLP have been selected to be included in the 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Brian S. Martin was cited for his achievements in Insurance Law....
E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage
Oct 23 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...
World of nanotechnology stirs product liability concerns
Jul 3 2006 // Federal regulators want to get a better handle on the burgeoning use of nanotechnology in everyday products, as their German counterparts struggle to understand why nearly 100 people suffered respiratory problems after...
New Drug Makers’ Labeling Could Limit Product Liability
Jun 30 2006 // Beginning June 30, drug manufacturers will be required by the Food and Drug Administration to provide more concise and better organized patient information package insert sheets. Any drug approved within the last five...
Catlin Launches Recall, K&R Coverage
Jun 26 2006 // International P/C insurer and reinsurer Catlin Group Limited, has formed a crisis management underwriting team that will write product recall and kidnap and ransom (K&R) coverages, effective 1 July...
Worldwide Facilities to Sponsor Tough Product Liability Class
Jun 8 2006 // The Los Angeles based office of Worldwide Facilities Inc., will be presenting a free educational seminar that discusses coverage and insurance issues relating to “tough” products liability accounts. The event,...
Federal product liability lawsuits declining, data indicates
Jun 5 2006 // After peaking in 2004, the number of total federal products liability lawsuits filed in the United States declined by 14 percent last year and is on pace to decline an additional 16 percent in 2006. The data was compiled...
Product Liability Suits Going Down
May 26 2006 // After peaking in 2004, the number of total federal products liability lawsuits filed in the U.S. declined by 14% last year and is on pace to decline an additional 16% in 2006. The data was compiled with information...
Ready, set … recall
May 22 2006 // Editor’s note: This is part 2 of two-part series on product recall. Part 1 appeared in the May 8, 2006, Western region issue of Insurance Journal. Losses resulting from a product recall are generally classified as...
Ready, set … recall
May 22 2006 // Editor’s note: This is part 2 of two-part series on product recall. Part 1 appeared in the May 8, 2006, Western region issue of Insurance Journal. Losses resulting from a product recall are generally classified as...
Products liability = risk identification = Insurance 101
May 22 2006 // Basic insurance coverage salespersons don’t fully understand their products or completed operational exposure, and insurance agents don’t understand it, and the public’s understanding is even more...
Danger: Paper bags are not a toy
May 8 2006 // We have all seen them, those annoying stickers on everything we buy warning us that this bag is not a toy, this or that small object is a chocking hazard, as if left to our own devices, we would all be giving our children...
