The Working Group Life Science and Whistleblowing have the pleasure to invite you to following virtual event:

The Legal System’s Blind Spot: Whistleblowing in the Age of Arbitration on 8 December 2025 | 5:00–6:00 p.m CET

Whistleblowing exists to protect the public. Yet despite laws intended to protect whistleblowers, companies can silence them through mandatory private dispute resolution (arbitration), where they choose the venue and pay the arbitrator who decides the outcome. This event examines how arbitration has become the business of law, creating a pathway to hide misconduct and avoid accountability.

Drawing on his experience as a healthcare innovator who blew the whistle to protect patients from avoidable injury, Dan will explore what happens when companies control the legal process through the hidden forces of insurance, arbitration, and the silencing mechanisms of confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements. From the perspective of someone who has lived it, he will show how known falsehoods can move from an arbitration award to an enforceable judgment that courts are powerless to review.

 Why Attend? The discussion confronts an essential question: How can whistleblowing survive when the legal system has a blind spot that allows companies to silence whistleblowers, conceal wrongdoing, and escape accountability?

Speaker Bio: Dan Peterson is a U.S. Air Force veteran and healthcare innovator who spent more than two decades in healthcare startups—some remarkably successful, others cautionary tales. His work helped launch medical devices later acquired by Johnson & Johnson, while one digital-health company rose to a billion-dollar IPO before collapsing to zero. The lessons from both wins and failures shaped his conviction that compliance and ethics matter more now than ever.

That conviction was tested when he blew the whistle after discovering a defect in a women’s health device that caused avoidable injuries. The company’s response wasn’t accountability. It was arbitration, lawyers, and silence. What followed became a study in how systems built to protect truth can instead be used to bury it.

Today, Dan advocates for fairness in the legal system. Drawing from experience across healthcare, business, and law, he speaks with unflinching honesty about how power, profit, and legal process can hinder justice and silence those who try to protect the public.

The link to join the event will be shared with the registered participants before the meeting.