environmental Strategist between the lines: Facebook, Amazon, Google, Alibaba… have become the latest distribution networks creating products pollution and other environmental liability exposures for your commercial insureds. Countries such as China who has brought us such contaminated products as dry wall, wood floors, lead laced children toys and Mardi Gras necklaces, dog food…, are now able to able to use internet based companies and side step the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission.
Coach your client’s to make sure they do not get themselves into a products pollution or other environmental exposure while trying to increase profits. A clear majority of products have imitations being made. In the past when it was a purse or a watch it did not cause much environmental harm. Now we are talking about cancer causing, skin burning materials / chemicals that cause not only bodily injury but have a negative impact upon our environment.
I bet Al Gore did not factor in environmental liabilities when he invented the internet.