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View allOur Gallagher National Head of Food Production Stephen Elms was a presenter and panellist at a recent industry workshop on product recalls aimed at identifying the legal and insurance issues involved.
The Queensland Intensive 2019 Under the Magnifying Glass workshop was hosted at The Calile Hotel at Fortitude Valley in Brisbane by the Australian Insurance Law Association. The program included
Elms was part of the panel discussion on Product Recalls ‒ Insurance Issues and Impacts, examining the recent Queensland strawberry needle contamination crisis which made headlines around Australia.
“Damage mitigation is the overriding goal where product recalls are concerned,” Elms says. “Being able to cover off a program of required actions is essential to riding out a crisis like the strawberry needle contamination.”
Some of the costs involved might typically be
Interestingly malicious product tampering, like the strawberry needle contamination, is the least damaging product failure any company can experience, provided the response is swift and effective in minimising ongoing risk.
Public and media reaction to negligence or accidental contamination when a food product is involved can be intense and the way that the company’s management deals with the recall can have a dramatic effect on whether the business can rebound or ceases to continue operations. .
Elms’s co panellists on the day were Dr Martin Miller, Director, Crawford & Company(far left) and Donna Niblock, Assistant Vice President, Crisis Management, Liberty International Underwriters (centre). Kiley Hodges, partner, Sparke Helmore Lawyers (second from right), was moderator for the session.
“Having a widely recognised recent example of a dramatic malicious tampering case helped bring our various perspectives – broking, underwriting and claims – vividly into focus,” Elms says. “It’s also helpful to look at the integrated picture, how the elements come together and what the larger implications are.
“No one wants to have to deal with a product recall, but if an incident occurs you need to be prepared and you need to be protected. That’s what product recall insurance is for.”
Working with a broker is an effective approach to analysing your food production supply chain and formulating how to respond to an incident before it occurs.
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