J.S. Held Acquires Clark Seif Clark, Strengthening West Coast Capabilities for Environmental Claims, Disputes, and Catastrophe Response
Read MoreOur product stewardship and liability experts deliver both proactive and reactive consulting services — advising clients in the development of safe, high quality, and regulatory compliant products while providing expert services when alleged defects, failures, contamination, or toxicity issues arise.
J.S. Held is recognized as an industry leader in the Verdantix Green Quadrant for Enterprise Risk Management Consulting.
Our experts help clients evaluate and mitigate the health, safety, environmental, and social impacts of a product to inform confident decision making throughout the product lifecycle. We provide guidance in achieving regulatory compliance, including hazard communication and risk management documentation.
In product liability matters, our technical and scientific experts deliver causation analysis, contamination origin evaluations, toxicity assessments, product defect and failures analysis, and consulting on resulting property damage or personal injury, including serving as expert witnesses for matters in dispute.
Our product stewardship and liability consulting services connect product examinations and reviews with laboratory testing and technical analysis to provide clear insight to inform product-related risk decisions, manage regulatory compliance, and render expert opinion in complex product liability litigation. We serve clients across industries and product classes, including:
Our multidisciplinary technical and scientific experts enable coordinated product safety evaluation, risk assessment, hazard communication, and regulatory compliance advisory through one integrated team.
Our product stewardship consulting services are delivered by chemists, engineers, environmental scientists, epidemiologists, human factors scientists, materials scientists, metallurgists, microbiologists, regulatory compliance experts, and toxicologists.
J.S. Held’s product safety and regulatory compliance expertise helps clients to create safer products for end users and meet jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements that stays consistent across product changes, suppliers, and markets.
We provide a full spectrum of product safety consulting services, including risk assessments, hazard communication, compliance with safety regulations, product durability and stress analysis, human health and environmental impact studies, chemical testing, safety data sheet (SDS) authoring and development, and toxicity assessments.
We lead product stewardship efforts throughout the product lifecycle by establishing quality and safety controls and documentation that keep products aligned with evolving requirements and regulatory compliance expectations over time.
Our expertise includes evaluating quality control and assurance, assessing potential contamination, performing off-spec analyses, and completing foreign materials examinations, providing clients with insightful assessments to reach necessary product compliance and certification and ensure quality control standards.
J.S. Held has board-certified toxicologists, epidemiologists, and other environmental and scientific professionals who understand the complexities of Prop 65 compliance issues and how to address them.
We advise in Prop 65 engagements by providing assessments of chemical and formulation inputs, potential human health and exposure risks, product data, and current labeling and marketing, then integrate our findings into written materials designed for business implementation, legal review, and ongoing internal governance to promote full compliance with Prop 65 and defensibility in future claims and/or litigation.
J.S. Held experts approach product liability matters by treating the product and documented evidence record as the starting point, then rebuilding the technical story through physical examination and testable scientific principles.
Our experts conduct forensic investigations to evaluate product contamination, defects or failures, toxicity, and property damage/personal injury in product liability cases. Together, our toxicologists, materials scientists, engineers, and industrial hygienists deliver comprehensive analyses that answer what happened, why it happened, when it happened, and the overall extent of damage to life, property, and the environment.
Our sustainability experts perform detailed assessments across the lifecycle of a product to determine any impact on the environment or human health. Our experts also help clients identify a product’s potential human health or environmental risks, as well as advise on the best ways to remove, transfer, or minimize them to ensure sustainability.
Our expert witness services provide technical opinions on alleged defects, failures, contamination, toxicity, warnings, and the relationship between product condition and claimed damages in product liability disputes. Our experts review the case record, evaluate testing and engineering evidence, interpret analytical results, and provide expert reports and testimony to address the product liability questions at issue.
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