Content from Adam Grossman
Adam Grossman, Ph.D., is Head of Casualty Emerging Risk, Moody’s.
What the Synthetic Food Dye Ban Means for Casualty Risk
On April 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced plans to phase out all petroleum-based synthetic food dyes due to ...
Insuring Emerging Risks in Era of Rapid Technological Change
The casualty insurance industry is currently facing an almost unprecedented number of large litigations that could drive insured losses into the tens of billions of dollars: glyphosate, PFAS, ...
2B or Not 2B? That Was the Question for Aspartame
In March 2015, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) designated glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, as "probably carcinogenic to humans" (Group ...
D&O Underwriters May Be Worried About the Wrong Greenhouse Gas
Greenwashing lawsuits, while still relatively uncommon, have seen an uptick in recent years, with some alleging harm to consumers and others alleging harm to shareholders. Coca-Cola defended against ...
Endocrine Disruption Litigation Has Arrived
How long does it take for science to identify a new type of harm from commercial activity before litigation tries to hold the businesses accountable? It has been more than 50 years since scientists ...
3M Belgian Settlement Signals Increased Risk of ‘Toxic Torts’ in Europe
"Toxic torts," which are lawsuits alleging damage to human health or the environment caused by specific substances, are increasingly common in the United States. They can cost defendants hundreds of ...
Pesticides: The New Pharma?
Fen-phen, Baycol, Rezulin, Vioxx… The 1990s and 2000s saw a tidal wave of pharmaceutical-related litigation that dominated the agenda of the plaintiffs' bar. Mass torts over the negative health ...
The Next Wave of Climate Change Litigation: Industrial Meat
Many insurers think they have climate casualty risk managed by virtue of avoiding writing the oil and gas industry or with limitations on their policies. Climate casualty risk is broader than this ...