Prochnow, from Greenberg Traurig, spoke to BeverageDaily.com after giving a presentation at InterBev 2012 entitled: 'The Beverage Industry's Biggest Threat: Jackpot Justice Legal Claims (And How to Defuse Them)'.
"It [the recent class action suit wave] has really become, if not the biggest, then one of the biggest problems for companies in the food, beverage, supplement industry," Prochnow said.
"When we talk about beverages - I talk about them both in terms of beverages and liquid supplements, because they're very similar in a lot of cases."