The CDC reports: Shigellosis is a nationally notifiable diarrheal illness caused by gram-negative bacteria. Shigella infection is spread through fecal-oral transmission and sexual contact. Although most infections are self-limited, antibiotics are indicated for severe illness or to reduce transmission in settings with high risk for spread. Since 2015, a growing proportion of cases has been caused by […]
Canadian officials said Tuesday that they had found a new case of mad cow disease, a report made more worrisome because the cow was born after feed restrictions intended to prevent the spread of the disease were put in place in 1997. It was the second infected cow from the western province of Alberta found […]
So far eight families have contacted Marler Clark, and one lawsuit has been filed, over the Wendy’s ground beef E. coli outbreak in Marion County. One family was hit twice when the two sons, a 4-year-old and a 23-month-old, became sick from E. coli. The 4-year-old was released last week from Oregon Health Sciences University […]
Half Moon Bay fruit-juice maker Odwalla Inc. has reached a settlement — reportedly for $12 million to $15 million — with the families of five young victims of a 1996 food-poisoning outbreak caused by a tainted batch of the company’s apple juice. The hefty settlement brings closer to an end a painful saga for the […]
A Washington state court yesterday approved the settlement of a lawsuit under which a 12-year-old girl who nearly died after eating a tainted hamburger will get $15.6 million. Under the settlement Foodmaker Inc., operator of Jack in the Box restaurants, meat processor Von Stores Inc. and various slaughterhouses will pay the sum to Brianne Kiner, […]
Marler Clark today announced the settlement of two salmonella cases stemming from the May, 2001 salmonella outbreak tied to contaminated cantaloupe. The cases settled were the wrongful death case of 78-year old Florence Dodds and the personal injury case of fifteen month old Nathan Eget. On May 25, 2001 the FDA issued a press release […]
William Marler, a Seattle attorney who represents children throughout the United States poisoned by E. coli, speaks out on Ohio and Kentucky E. coli cases tied to Kentucky Fried Chicken Coleslaw. “Nearly everyday I hear about another case of E. coli, Salmonella or Lysteria tied to some food product. However, I have never seen a […]
As the Denver Post reports, Tuesday Marler Clark settled with ConAgra Foods the claims of six more victims – three of them in Colorado – who were sickened or died after eating E. coli-tainted beef last summer. That brings to 21 the number of cases ConAgra has agreed to pay without going to court. At […]
Back in late 2003, Todd Frankel of the Post-Dispatch called dining with me an unusual experience in his article “Seattle attorney is representing 5 of 6 victims in E. coli outbreak,” which referred to the Habaneros E. coli outbreak in Missouri. I told him: “I haven’t eaten a hamburger since Jack in the Box,” Marler […]
Marler Clark has settled with Supervalu and American Foods Group on behalf of the parents of Sonja Pearson, a young girl who became seriously ill after eating E. coli-contaminated ground beef that was supplied by AFG to Supervalu’s Cub Foods subsidiary. More than 40 people in the Upper Midwest became ill during the E. coli […]
Marler Clark got BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. and a meat supplier to agree to pay $ 11 million to the family of a New York girl developed HUS after eating contaminated hamburgers. We also represent a young boy whose family bought tainted hamburger from another BJ’s Wholesale Club store. As I said in the article: […]
A not-so-Sunny reminder? Class Action Lawsuit Filed by Marler Clark re Sun Orchard Orange Juice Salmonella Outbreak In July of 1999, Marler Clark,filed a nationwide class action lawsuit on behalf of all persons sickened and injured by unpasteurized orange juice contaminated with a rare strain of the Salmonella bacteria. The contaminated juice was manufactured by […]
A White Water reminder from the past: E. Coli Victims Sue White Water; Addison and Shook Families File for Damages Back in July of 1998, we filed lawsuits for the families of Matthew Addison, age 3, from Louisville, Ky., and Jordan Shook, age 4, from Cartersville, Ga., in Cobb County against White Water. This was […]
Some good news for one of my young clients who went through the agony of HUS from eating a hamburger. Stephen Tyler Roberts, now 13, but at the time a fifth-grader, was hospitalized and needed several blood transfusions in April 1998. He was one of the unfortunate children at Danielsville Elementary School who ate the […]
Grandmother Bonnie Bartley is suing the Golden Corral, after she and her 4-year-old granddaughter became extremely ill from the lunch they ate there on August 17. Allison B. Luster, 4, of Marietta, was taken to WellStar Kennestone Hospital’s emergency room Aug. 23 with bloody stools, constant vomiting and severe stomach pain. She also developed a […]
Marler Clark has been retained by four victims of a June outbreak of salmonellosis at a Gates country club. In an article titled Outbreak Victims Hire Top Lawyer, one of the Florida men (my client) sickened by this outbreak describes the illness he went through as ‘one of the worst weeks of [his] life.’ The […]