manufacturing operations

• Key Coverage Trends in Manufacturing’s ‘Big 3’ Risks: Workers’ Comp, Product Recall and Supply Chain

  By Dave Lenckus  |  March 8, 2012

  Those who manage and underwrite risks for manufacturers are facing familiar risks with some challenging new twists.

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  Coverage Trends in Manufacturing’s “Big 3” Risks: Workers’ Comp, Product Recall and Supply Chains

  By Dave Lenckus  |  February 9, 2012

  With Workers’ Compensation, the big shift is the medical component of costs exceeding indemnity costs. With Supply Chain risk, it’s the realization that supply and upstream customer chains can be far more fragile than anticipated in a catastrophe. And for food processors, the emerging challenge is a food-safety law that...

• Commercial Agencies of the Year Share Success Secrets in Exclusive Roundtable

  November 4, 2011

  To hear how some of the country’s top-performing independent commercial agencies are dealing with today’s tough competitive environment, we invited the three winners of the National Underwriter/American Agent & Broker Commercial Agency of the Year Awards to a roundtable in New York where they could share their insights—and some of...

• Tough Times Keeping The Heat On Risk Managers Tackling Comp Costs

  By Staff Writer  |  October 25, 2010

  It isn't easy being a risk manager in the middle of one of the worst economic downturns since The Great Depression, particularly if you are trying to control workers' compensation costs.

• Flextronics Finds Accountability Pays As Allocation Raises Loss Awareness

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  August 16, 2010

  How can a company maintain a successful workers' comp risk management program in a competitive environment when battling an economic downturn and while digesting an acquisition of a firm larger than the corporate parent?

• Without Reinventing The Wheel, Automaker Achieves Big WC Savings

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  August 16, 2010

  Nissan North America has achieved dramatically improved workers' compensation results by creating a safer workplace for its employees.

• Magnum BI

  By Jerome Trupin,CPCU,CLU  |  January 1, 2010

  Helping an insured calculate its maximum possible business interruption (BI) loss exposure is one of the thorniest problems an insurance adviser faces, likely to occur because insureds underestimate their BI exposures.