5 Steps to Placing Your Product in a Retail Chain [Infographic]

by Karen Waksman Follow the five steps below, and watch your sales grow as your product is sold in the retail stores you are interested in! Do you have a great product that you KNOW people would buy… if only…

Patent Trolling – A Growth Industry?

Patent trolling is currently a legalized method of extorting businesses for profit. The word troll conjures up childhood images of grotesque creatures hiding under bridges waiting to pounce on unsuspecting travelers.  Well, patent trolls aren’t too different – they prey…

Vendor Portals

Making it easy to find out insurance requirements We specialize in helping start-up businesses with their Product Liability Insurance needs. We get a lot of calls from start-ups asking us to help them with their business plan and budgets. It is important for…

Anatomy Of A Product Liability Lawsuit

I was recently reading about a product liability lawsuit involving the CR-Flex knee implant.  The lawsuit is known as the Zimmer NexGen knee lawsuit. What I thought was interesting was the number of charges brought in the lawsuit. All total…

Dietary Supplements & Nutraceuticals News

Announcing specialized insurance for the dietary supplements and nutraceuticals industry Sales of dietary supplements now reach over $11 billion in the U.S. alone. This spurs manufacturers to think about the effect of a product recall or lawsuit. Sadler Products Liability…

Understanding Children’s Product Liability

The most unique category of products in the marketplace Importers, distributors, manufacturers and inventors of children’s products must understand how insurance carriers, courts and retailers think about this distinct category of products. Why children’s products are different from other products…

Scary Foodborne Illness Facts (Infographic)

 Food-borne illness: Prelude to a recall Even after working 14 years in the Product Liability Insurance industry, I was shocked at by the facts in “Product Recall and Traceability.”  The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 48 million cases…

Regulating 3D Printer Designs

Is printing of 3D firearms a first step? I read an interesting article about 3D printing of firearms.  Essentially, the article reports that the Danish 3D tech company, Create It REAL, designed software that prevents the printing of 3D firearms….

Will Gun Liability Insurance Curb Gun Violence?

Proposed legislation begs the question Many state and federal lawmakers  want to identify new ways of curbing the rise in gun violence.  Legislators in Massachusetts, California, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Illinois filed legislation that would require gun owners…

Insuring Trademark Infringement Claims

Better protection needed by the insurance industry When it comes to providing clear coverage for trademark infringement claims, the insurance industry is doing a poor job. That’s scary because of the rapid increase in this type of litigation due to…