Join JPMA Associate member Arthur J. Gallagher and its partners at Risk Placement Services and Cahill Consultants as they address matters related to:

• Working with the CPSC following claims for injury or the discovery of a defective product.
• The general recall process (operational / regulatory).
• Services available to my company to mitigate risk and to be proactive to a potential response.
• What are my risks associated to my Product Liability policy?
• Can Product Liability policies be different and what risks does this present to me?
• What gaps exist in my insurance without a standalone Product Contamination/Recall policy?
• Why is a custom-designed liability and recall policy so important to my company?
• How is my risk different in the juvenile product space?
• How can I best position myself in the insurance market?
• Addressing some of the largest and most common risks in the juvenile product space?

Speakers

Bill Harrison started his career as an underwriter at AIG. He then called the CEO of Aon to pitch the idea of starting the first brokerage group focused on the risks of product contamination, product recall, kidnap and ransom, and terrorism. 
As managing director, he was responsible for the quality of the team’s work, growth and profitability of this business. In addition to co-authoring a book—The Executive’s Desk Book on Corporate Risks and Response for Homeland Security—he spent 10 years improving the products, expanding the specialty insurance market and helping hundreds of companies address their crisis management risks. This included a high-profile crisis management and security partnership to offer high-level security and crisis consulting work to corporate America called Aon Giuliani Protocol, which resulted in a profitable group with brokers/consultants in 24 countries. Bill also started a large and successful product recall/contamination brokerage practice with Marsh. Bill joined Gallagher in 2018 and is now focused on helping clients manage their product recall and product contamination risk, and building the most successful product recall team in the world.

Adam Nisenson is one of the directors of Gallagher’s Product Recall practice responsibilities include oversight and management of Gallagher’s Product Recall Practice including market placement and policy customization for accounts ranging from middle-market through Fortune 500 companies. Adam began his career at the largest wholesale brokerage office in the country (RT Specialty Chicago) where he was a Casualty & Product Recall broker. After four years, he moved over to Marsh to run the Midwest for their Product Recall Practice and co-lead the practice’s Food & Beverage Center of Excellence prior to departing for Gallagher in 2018.

Katherine Cahill has been providing product safety and regulatory compliance expertise to executives of companies for over twenty-five years. With specialty expertise in regulatory compliance issues domestically and globally, she has the reputation for taking extraordinarily difficult projects with many complexities and strategizing successful solutions that will assist with compliance and good corporate governance throughout an organization. 
Ms. Cahill has been recognized as a product liability and product safety expert by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Justice, U.S. Government Accountability Office, United States Congress and the United States Senate. Additionally, she has been recognized as a thought leader on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, (CPSIA).
Ms. Cahill has represented manufacturers who produce industrial equipment, farm machinery, pharmaceuticals, bio-medical equipment, food/beverages, toys, cosmetics and consumer products. 

Kyle Merkel is a vice president for Arthur J Gallagher. Kyle began his career at ADP working with businesses on their insurance needs. Kyle then moved to Gallagher to work in the mid-market space as a Property & Casualty broker focusing on the middle market. Typical industries include: Juvenile Products, Children’s Toys, Manufacturers, & Publicly Traded Organizations.