A joint offering by the College of Engineering and the School of Business
Product Liability Conference
Audience
- Engineers
- Product safety personnel
- Paralegals
- Attorneys
- Others with product safety/liability related responsibilities
Benefits
This annual conference is your opportunity to:
- Enhance your current product safety and liability prevention activities by obtaining up-to-date information on a wide range of topics (see above)
- 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
- Avoiding Product Liability Pitfalls
- Evaluating Products for Foreseeable Use
- Using Standards to Improve Product Performance and Safety
- When Are Safer Products Not Really Safer: A Look at Behavioral Adaptation
- Litigation Management: Reflections from a Veteran
- Current Issues Affecting a Company's Duty to Warn
- Complex Multi-Party Litigation and the Challenge to Experts
- Defending the Product Liability Case from Product Design to Verdict
- How to Obtain the Most from Your Defense Attorneys
- Case Studies on State of the Art and Custom of the Industry
- Expert Witnesses: How to Lose a Product Liability Case in Three Easy Steps
- Integrated Product Safety