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Marler Clark has published 8,627 articles about foodborne illness outbreaks and lawsuits.
January 28, 2007 • Outbreaks
January 27, 2007 • Hepatitis A
Family files suit over Hepatitis A threat
Tona Kunz of the Chicago Daily Herald wrote that Marler Clark leveled what it hopes will become a class action lawsuit against the Houlihan’s restaurant in Geneva Commons. The lawsuit filed Friday in Kane County on behalf of a Geneva family of four seeks an unspecified amount of damages for …
January 26, 2007 • Events & Speaking Engagements
Kentucky Association of Milk, Food, and Environmental Sanitarians Seminar (KAMFES) (2007)
Drew Falkenstein traveled to Lexington, Kentucky, for the 2007 KAMFES Seminar. He will present on the topic of liability of environmental health agencies for alleged negligent inspections and/or sources of liability that may apply to regulators conducting inspections and epidemiological investigations. …
January 26, 2007 • Press Releases
Class Action Lawsuit to be Filed against Houlihan’s Friday
A class action lawsuit will be filed on January 26th against Houlihan’s, the Geneva, Illinois, restaurant where a food worker was diagnosed with hepatitis A. The lawsuit will be filed in Kane County Circuit Court on behalf of named plaintiff Rebecca Johnson, a Genoa, Illinois, resident who dined at Houlihan’s …
January 25, 2007 • Hepatitis A
Workers to get Hepatitis A shots
This is the third reported incident of Hepatitis A in a food service worker in the last two week – Arizona, Illinois and now Rhode Island. Providence Journal The Health Department is giving shots to 320 employees of the Cheesecake Factory in Providence and the Texas Roadhouse in Cranston after …
January 24, 2007 • Outbreaks
January 24, 2007 • Hepatitis A
Houlihan’s lawsuit possible
Full story Paul Dailing at the Kane County Chronicle (IL) GENEVA – Attorney William Marler of Marler Clark Attorneys at Law was cited as saying that a family of four from Geneva contacted his firm about possible legal action against Houlihan’s Restaurant after customers possibly were exposed to hepatitis A …
January 24, 2007 • Salmonella
CDC to help pin down salmonella in SV
The Cochise County Health Department has the CDC to help investigate the source of the salmonella outbreak in the Sierra Vista area of Arizona. There have been forty-six cases reported since early Septemeber. Full story from the Arizona Daily Star "We have no working theories or leads on where this …
January 23, 2007 • Outbreaks
January 23, 2007 • Salmonella
Salmonella outbreak traced to restaurant meat slicer
WALB News Full Story To find the Video Link, click here and go to the bottom of the page. Valdosta – Faulty equipment at a fast food restaurant was the cause of a salmonella outbreak last fall, according to the Division of Public Health in Lowndes County. Seventy-two people in …
January 22, 2007 • Salmonella
CDC plans to stay until source of salmonella problem found
Article by Dana Cole from The Sierra Vista Herald – Full Story SIERRA VISTA — A team of health professionals from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in Sierra Vista to assist with an investigation that has been frustrating state and local health officials. A salmonella outbreak that …
January 22, 2007 • Salmonella
New Salmonella Outbreak in Sierra Vista
Article from Teresa Jun at KOLD News 13 – Full Story At least 16 people have been infected in a new wave of salmonella cases in south eastern Arizona. The latest bout in Sierra Vista follows an outbreak last October that made 30 people sick. So far, health workers have …
January 22, 2007 • Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A scare at Geneva restaurant – UPDATED
More than 600 people who dined at Houlihan’s Restaurant in Geneva this month have received shots to protect against infection after an employee was diagnosed with hepatitis “A.” The Kane County Health Department is offering the immune globulin shots for free to anyone who ate at the restaurant between January …
January 22, 2007 • Salmonella
Lawsuit filed following salmonella outbreak at Arby’s
THE VALDOSTA DAILY TIMES reported that the first of approximately a dozen lawsuits was filed in state court this week against Arby’s Restaurant Group Inc. and Arby’s LLC, following a salmonella outbreak in Lowndes County in August. Also named as defendants in the suit are Beavers Inc., and Birg Inc. …
January 22, 2007 • Outbreaks
January 20, 2007 • Hepatitis A
About Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is one of five human hepatitis viruses (hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E) that primarily infect the liver and cause illness. An estimated 80,000 cases occur each year in the U.S., although much higher estimates have been proposed based on mathematical modeling of the past incidence of …
January 20, 2007 • Salmonella
About Salmonella
Salmonella is one of the most common enteric (intestinal) infections in the United States. Salmonellosis (the disease caused by Salmonella) is the second most common foodborne illness after Campylobacter infection. It is estimated that 1.4 million cases of salmonellosis occur each year in the U.S.; 95% of those cases are …
January 20, 2007 • Outbreaks
January 20, 2007 • Salmonella
CDC plans to stay until source of Arizona salmonella problem found
Dana Cole of the Sierra Vista Herald Review reports: A team of health professionals from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in Sierra Vista, Arizona to assist with an investigation that has been frustrating state and local health officials. A salmonella outbreak that started on Sept. 1 has …
January 19, 2007 • Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A Infosheet
The Food Safety Network, a partnership between the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and Kansas State University, in Manhattan, Kansas, posted its most recent food safety infosheet recently. This infosheet, as seen to the left, is on the topic of hepatitis A outbreaks. Potential hepatitis A outbreaks have …
January 19, 2007 • Salmonella
Almonds to be pasteurized to prevent Salmonella
In an article titled, "Almond Board pasteurization plan in final comment stage," published today, Cary Blake writes for the Western Farm Press: After two-years of research and consultation across California’s almond industry, the Almond Board of California’s “action plan” creating a mandatory pasteurization program to eliminate any salmonella bacteria in …
January 19, 2007 • Outbreaks
January 19, 2007 • Events & Speaking Engagements
Minnesota Environmental Health Association (2007)
Bill Marler gave a presentation titled, "How to Sue a Health Department" at the Minnesota Environmental Health Association meeting, to be held in St. Paul, Minnesota. His presentation focused on Minnesota laws governing liability of public health agencies. …
January 18, 2007 • Outbreaks
January 18, 2007 • Outbreaks
Third E. coli Lawsuit Filed against Taco John’s by Seattle Law Firm
Marler Clark filed its third lawsuit on behalf of a victim of last year’s E. coli O157:H7 outbreak traced to Taco John’s restaurants in Iowa and Minnesota. The lawsuit was filed against Taco John’s in Minnesota state court in Albert Lea on behalf of an Albert Lea resident and her …
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