Sedgwick represents all links in the food production chain including seed producers, poultry farmers, growers, food processors, additive and nutritional supplemnet manufacters, bakeries, grocery stores and restaurants. Our lawyers frequently consult with counsel, manufacturers, and risk managers on the development of preventive product liability programs. Our products liability counseling services include the preparation of risk analyses, the development of pre-loss programs, and the assessment of advertising liability. Sedgwick also prepares product warning labels, instruction manuals, and product literature. We have assembled teams of professionals who are uniquely qualified to provide practical, insightful counsel. These teams include engineers, nurses, pharmacologists and experience trial attorneys.

Sedgwick represents all links in the food production chain including seed producers, poultry farmers, growers, food processors, additive and nutritional supplemnet manufacters, bakeries, grocery stores and restaurants. Our lawyers frequently consult with counsel, manufacturers, and risk managers on the development of preventive product liability programs. Our products liability counseling services include the preparation of risk analyses, the development of pre-loss programs, and the assessment of advertising liability. Sedgwick also prepares product warning labels, instruction manuals, and product literature. We have assembled teams of professionals who are uniquely qualified to provide practical, insightful counsel. These teams include engineers, nurses, pharmacologists and experience trial attorneys.

Proposition 65

Our expertise in Proposition 65 matters typifies the full service representation our products liability group provides. Prop. 65 prohibits companies doing business in California exposing employees or consumers to certain chemicals without warning. Among those required to provide a warning are food distributors, bars, restaurants and entertainment venues. Sedgwick keeps its clients advised when new chemicals are added to the mandatory warning list, we prepare warnings and we defend clients in lawsuits brought under Prop. 65.

Representative Engagements

• Attorneys at Sedgwick represented a plaintiff who contracted cholera from eating raw oysters he bought from a hotel at Fisherman’s Wharf. The case was instrumental in spurring the California legislature to enact regulation related to out-of-state oysters harvested from the gulf.
• We represented an international hotel chain in a matter where the plaintiff was mistakenly served a food item to which plaintiff had a life-threatening allergic reaction.
• Sedgwick represented a restaurant chain bringing a business interruption claim against its business property insurer for losses arising out of the riots in the greater Los Angeles area.
• We defended a wrongful death action brought against our hotel client in which the guest-decedent died as a result of alcohol poisoning after drinking in the hotel bar.
• We handled for one client more than 250 cases, many of which involved personal injury claims that arose from ingestion of allegedly bad food.
• Attorneys at Sedgwick represented a fast food franchise owner in a lawsuit when plaintiffs alleged that a 9-year old girl suffered major brain damage after exposure to e-coli contamination from food consumed at the restaurant.
• We represented a major fast food chain when it recalled a free toy giveaway after a child was asphyxiated while playing with the toy.
• Sedgwick attorneys represented the retailer in a case in which a candy manufacturer refused to pay money in settlement after the FDA recalled a candy that was linked to the deaths of three children.
• Attorneys at Sedgwick represented a family-owned business that prepares additives for the baking industry after the company suffered a catastrophic explosion that destroyed their plant. We investigated the loss and brought a product liability claim against the manufacturer of a dry powder mixing machine that we believed triggered the explosion.
• Attorneys at Sedgwick represented a national fast food chain after a customer claimed he became so ill after consuming a meal at the restaurant that he continued to suffer ill effects for more than one year.
• Attorneys at Sedgwick were retained to minimize damages after its clients, an orange juice manufacturer, admitted liability in an action resulting in salmonella contamination in various batches of its product.
• Attorneys at Sedgwick have defended a variety of claims involving pediatric nutritional supplements.
• We defended a private attorney general action involving alleged injuries and increased risk of illness from fluoride concentrations in infant formula.
• Attorneys at Sedgwick handled an environmental and toxic tort action arising from disposal of process chemicals by a food supplement manufacturer.
• We defended a personal injury and business loss arising from adulteration of edible food items with no edible botanicals.
• Sedgwick handled the defense of alleged salmonella poisoning from a fast food product.

Sedgwick represents all links in the food production chain including seed producers, poultry farmers, growers, food processors, additive and nutritional supplemnet manufacters, bakeries, grocery stores and restaurants. Our lawyers frequently consult with counsel, manufacturers, and risk managers on the development of preventive product liability programs. Our products liability counseling services include the preparation of risk analyses, the development of pre-loss programs, and the assessment of advertising liability. Sedgwick also prepares product warning labels, instruction manuals, and product literature. We have assembled teams of professionals who are uniquely qualified to provide practical, insightful counsel. These teams include engineers, nurses, pharmacologists and experience trial attorneys.

Proposition 65

Our expertise in Proposition 65 matters typifies the full service representation our products liability group provides. Prop. 65 prohibits companies doing business in California exposing employees or consumers to certain chemicals without warning. Among those required to provide a warning are food distributors, bars, restaurants and entertainment venues. Sedgwick keeps its clients advised when new chemicals are added to the mandatory warning list, we prepare warnings and we defend clients in lawsuits brought under Prop. 65.

Representative Engagements

• Attorneys at Sedgwick represented a plaintiff who contracted cholera from eating raw oysters he bought from a hotel at Fisherman’s Wharf. The case was instrumental in spurring the California legislature to enact regulation related to out-of-state oysters harvested from the gulf.
• We represented an international hotel chain in a matter where the plaintiff was mistakenly served a food item to which plaintiff had a life-threatening allergic reaction.
• Sedgwick represented a restaurant chain bringing a business interruption claim against its business property insurer for losses arising out of the riots in the greater Los Angeles area.
• We defended a wrongful death action brought against our hotel client in which the guest-decedent died as a result of alcohol poisoning after drinking in the hotel bar.
• We handled for one client more than 250 cases, many of which involved personal injury claims that arose from ingestion of allegedly bad food.
• Attorneys at Sedgwick represented a fast food franchise owner in a lawsuit when plaintiffs alleged that a 9-year old girl suffered major brain damage after exposure to e-coli contamination from food consumed at the restaurant.
• We represented a major fast food chain when it recalled a free toy giveaway after a child was asphyxiated while playing with the toy.
• Sedgwick attorneys represented the retailer in a case in which a candy manufacturer refused to pay money in settlement after the FDA recalled a candy that was linked to the deaths of three children.
• Attorneys at Sedgwick represented a family-owned business that prepares additives for the baking industry after the company suffered a catastrophic explosion that destroyed their plant. We investigated the loss and brought a product liability claim against the manufacturer of a dry powder mixing machine that we believed triggered the explosion.
• Attorneys at Sedgwick represented a national fast food chain after a customer claimed he became so ill after consuming a meal at the restaurant that he continued to suffer ill effects for more than one year.
• Attorneys at Sedgwick were retained to minimize damages after its clients, an orange juice manufacturer, admitted liability in an action resulting in salmonella contamination in various batches of its product.
• Attorneys at Sedgwick have defended a variety of claims involving pediatric nutritional supplements.
• We defended a private attorney general action involving alleged injuries and increased risk of illness from fluoride concentrations in infant formula.
• Attorneys at Sedgwick handled an environmental and toxic tort action arising from disposal of process chemicals by a food supplement manufacturer.
• We defended a personal injury and business loss arising from adulteration of edible food items with no edible botanicals.
• Sedgwick handled the defense of alleged salmonella poisoning from a fast food product.