Are You Prepared for Obesity Litigation?
Maximizing your insurance assets, using federal regulations proactively, and refocusing compliance programs will improve your position against possible lawsuits.
Despite significant hurdles in terms of pleading, proof of causation, class certification requirements, and state legislation barring or limiting litigation (the so-called “Cheeseburger” laws), the prospect of a resurgence of lawsuits seeking to tie food industry companies to the obesity epidemic in the United States and elsewhere is real. Litigation risk is increasing as the obesity crisis worsens and has become extremely costly. Progress in and reporting on science and “popu…
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