27th Annual Product Liability Conference

Benefits

• Enhance your current product safety and liability prevention activities by obtaining up-to-date information on a wide range of topics (see below)
• Learn from practicing professionals who will provide helpful and valuable insight to improve your product safety decision making
• Benefit from a product safety and liability prevention series course from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a leader in the field

Topics

• The increasing role of symbols on product warning labels
• When does an industrial product become a consumer product
• Organizing for a product recall, retrofit or upgrade
• Defending against an emerging plaintiff strategy - the reptile theory
• Workshop - Evaluating a new product for hazards and liability issues
• Communicating with users of your products
• Accident scene investigation
• Analyzing the root cause of a product failure
• Ergonomic considerations during design to reduce user fatigue, accidents and injury
• Product liability litigation, what manufacturers need to know, a plaintiff attorney’s perspective
• Social media and foreseeable misuse, how companies respond to misuse may have implications on claims for liability