Seminar Overview

• The Transportation, Logistics and the Law seminar is designed to provide a basic working knowledge of the laws and regulations affecting the supply chain and governing the relationships between the parties -- shippers, carriers, and intermediaries.
• These one-of-a-kind seminars are designed for the persons actually doing the work - negotiating contracts; filing or defending claims for loss and damage to cargo; paying or collecting freight charges; purchasing and analyzing cargo insurance policies; and dealing with the day-to-day “bumps in the road” encountered by transportation professionals.
• Topics include the critical issues which transportation professionals and attorneys are confronted with in their day-to-day activities:
  • Vicarious liability for highway accidents and deaths --- Schramm v. Foster and the C.H. Robinson cases, safety rating system, CSA 2010, qualifying carriers to minimize risk *** liability for freight charges and exposure to having to pay freight charges twice *** the elimination of required cargo liability insurance
• The text provides vital information you need for minimizing risks and protecting revenues for your organization AND for your own individual professional growth.
• Registrants will receive 6.5 hours of credit for each day of attendance by the Certified Claims Professional Accreditation Council (CCPAC). State Continuing Legal Education (CLE) applications will be filed for 6.5 credits on request.

• Vicarious (indirect) liability for highway accidents
• Minimizing the risk for exposure to having to pay freight charges twice
• Carrier’s late payment penalties and how to avoid them
• Critical distinction between cargo insurance and cargo liability insurance
• Why shippers should draft their own contracts
• How to get new or changed products classified by the National Classification Committee
• What to look for in tariffs, insurance policies, rate proposals and contracts
• How to deal with carriers in the deregulated environment
• How to tell the difference between carriers and the various types of intermediaries
• How to check on carriers and intermediaries' compliance with government laws and regulations
• Why it is more difficult for claimants to recover for transit losses today
• How to protect against unrecoverable transit losses and damage
• How to safely pay freight charges to third parties
• How to avoid disputes and litigation
• UCC Terms of Sale & Incoterms 2010 problems - and possible solutions
• International cargo liability laws and treaties
• Intermodal and Cross-Border transportation liability