Food Safety Claims: Products Liability Issues
Mastering the Standards for Fault, Causation, and Damages in Foodborne Illness Litigation
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar/teleconference with Q&A
Conducted on Thursday, December 8, 2011
Recorded event now available
This CLE webinar will provide product liability defense and plaintiff counsel with a review of the legal issues particular to foodborne illness litigation and will discuss the definition of standards for fault, causation and damages.
Description
The CDC estimates in the U.S. that there are over 48 million cases of foodborne illnesses each year. Jury verdicts can reach millions of dollars and often garner media attention. Whether bringing or defending a food safety claim, success hinges upon mastering the standards unique to these cases.
Foodborne illness liability requires the establishment of fault and causation by the plaintiff. Both plaintiff and defense counsel must understand the scientific link between the foodborne illness, the alleged harm to a plaintiff, and the defendant's product to prove or defend against such suits.
In food safety litigation, counsel must also understand how to assess damages. The financial liability of all parties involved, the anticipation of plaintiffs' future medical costs, and defendants' insurance coverage all play a key role in determining damages.
Listen as our authoritative panel of products liability attorneys define the standards for establishing fault and causation and proving damages in food safety cases. They will also discuss current trends in food safety litigation and best practices to bring or defend these cases.
Outline
- Compliance Issues in Food Safety
- Overview of legal requirements in food safety
- Statutes
- Regulations
- The Food Safety Products Liability Claim
- Brief overview of science of foodborne illness
- Delineating fault
- Defining a scientific causal link
- How to Pay For a Food Safety Problems
- The Types of Costs That A Food Liability Problem Can Cause
- The role of Insurance and other risk-spreading tools
- Early steps to take when claims or recalls occur
- What your company or client can do now to prepare
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What are the standards for liability and negligence and which defendants are held to each standard in food safety litigation?
- How does available insurance coverage influence how counsel approaches the legal issues involved?
- What is the role of expert witnesses in establishing causation and determining damages?
Faculty
Jonathan M. Cohen,
Partner
Gilbert, Washington, D.C.
His practice focuses on the litigation and resolution of complex, multiparty disputes involving insurance, product liability, and supply-chain issues. wide range of coverage matters, including bodily injury and property damage, food-contamination, asbestos, product recall, technology-related property damage, advertising injury and pharmaceutical-related coverage issues.
Joseph J. Bottiglieri,
Partner
Bonner Kiernan Trebach & Crociata, Washington, D.C.
He has over 20 years of experience litigating matters in the areas of product liability, professional liability, complex insurance disputes and contracts. He has extensive experience working on matters involving foodborne pathogens, product tampering, food allergens, and the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act.
Lee N. Smith,
Partner
Stoel Rives, Sacramento, Calif.
His practice includes land and natural resource regulation and development food safety, environmental compliance, water law and litigation. He has also been involved in state court litigation concerning pesticide contamination, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and Prop. 65 litigation, as well as federal litigation involving pesticide registration and the Comprehensive Environmental.
Ordering
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Customer Reviews
The seminar featured very knowledgeable presenters on an extremely important topic.
Kenneth Mathieu
FTI Consulting
I liked the application of recent case law.
Jeff Vagle
Pepper Hamilton LLP
The CLE covered exactly what was advertised and it was geared to a person with my practice background and level of expertise.
Aliza Organick
Washburn University School of Law
Good handouts and up to date references.
Andrew Davis
Lieben Whitted Houghton Slowiaczek & Cavanagh
Excellent topics, discussed very well.
McClure King
Dearborn National
Product Liability Advisory Board
Partner
Hartline Dacus Barger Dreyer
Member
Herzfeld & Rubin
Of Counsel
Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker
Partner
Thompson Hine
Member
Herzfeld & Rubin
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