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Marler Clark has published 5,680 articles about foodborne illness outbreaks and lawsuits.
May 13, 2003 • Press Releases
Court of Appeals decision ensures that the doors of the courthouse will remain open
The State of Wisconsin District I Court of Appeals handed down a decision holding that meat supplier Excel can be found liable under state law for supplying adulterated meat to Milwaukee Sizzler restaurants. The contaminated meat supplied to Sizzler led to the E. coli O157:H7 infection and death of a …
May 07, 2003 • Press Releases
Lawyers for Food Poisoning Victims Sue USDA for Withholding Documents
Marler Clark filed suit against the USDA in Federal Court in Washington state, claiming the agency improperly withheld documents concerning dozens of children that were poisoned by contaminated school lunches at Laraway Elementary School in Joliet, Illinois. Marler Clark represented about one-third of the students and teachers who were sickened …
April 22, 2003 • Outbreaks
Reno Hilton Outbreak - Again?
Nearly a year after a jury awarded $25.2 million to a group of tourists sickened while staying at the Reno Hilton, the hotel was again the focus of a health department investigation. Reports surfaced that visitors to the hotel became ill with a gastrointestinal virus over the Easter weekend. …
April 02, 2003 • Press Releases
Lawsuit Filed in Salmonella Sprout Case
Marler Clark filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court against Harmony Farms, LLC, the Auburn, Washington, sprout grower that was linked by the Oregon Department of Human Services to at least nine cases of Salmonella Saintpaul in Washington and Oregon in early March, 2003. …
April 02, 2003 • Press Releases
Salmonella Lawsuit Filed against Clarkston Quality Inn
A lawsuit was filed against Choice Hotels International, Inc. and Clarkston Development Group, L.P., owners of the Quality Inn & Suites Conference Center and the “Bogey’s” restaurant located at 700 Port Drive in Clarkston, Washington. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a man who became ill with a Salmonella …
April 02, 2003 • Outbreaks
Harmony Farms Salmonella Outbreak Lawsuits - Washington & Oregon (2003)
Marler Clark represented several victims of 2 Salmonella outbreaks traced to alfalfa sprouts produced by Harmony Farms, of Auburn, Washington, in 2003. The sprouts were blamed for back-to-back outbreaks of Salmonella poisoning that sickened at least 16 people in Oregon and Washington. …
April 01, 2003 • Outbreaks
Sodexho Spinach E. coli Outbreak Lawsuits - California (2003)
In 2003, an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak among residents of The Sequoias, a retirement center in San Mateo County, was reported to public health officials. The San Mateo County Health Services Agency investigated the outbreak and determined that spinach served out of The Sequoias' dining center by Sodexho was the …
April 01, 2003 • Outbreaks
Seasons on the Pond Salmonella Outbreak Lawsuits - Colorado (2003)
Marler Clark represented a woman who became ill with Salmonella and was hospitalized after eating at the Seasons on the Pond restaurant in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in 2003. The woman was one of 51 Salmonella cases linked to the consumption of food at the restaurant. …
April 01, 2003 • Outbreaks
Marler Clark, Hepatitis A Victims File Lawsuit against Chimayo, Eastsound Restaurant
Marler Clark filed a lawsuit against Chimayo, the Eastsound restaurant associated with a Hepatitis A outbreak in the spring of 2000. The lawsuit was filed in San Juan County Superior Court in Washington, on behalf of an Eastsound couple who contracted Hepatitis A infections after eating contaminated food at Chimayo …
March 31, 2003 • Outbreaks
Chi-Chi’s Hepatitis A Outbreak Lawsuits - Pennsylvania (2003)
Marler Clark represented 78 individuals in claims against Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant after its Beaver Valley Mall location near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was identified as the source of a hepatitis A outbreak in 2003. The firm also represented thousands who received immune globulin injections to prevent hepatitis A infection in a class …
March 26, 2003 • Outbreaks
Salmonella Outbreak Could have been Prevented
Consumers in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska were asked to throw out Harmony Foods brand sprouts after several people in Western Washington and Oregon became ill with salmonella infections. Sprouts have been implicated in an increasing number of foodborne illness outbreaks in recent years, and procedures have been developed to …
March 18, 2003 • Outbreaks
Food Safety Attorney Calls on FDA to Require Sprout Labeling
A sprout-related Salmonella outbreak in western Oregon, Washington, and northern California prompted Bill Marler to call on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require warnings on packaging of all raw sprouts and seeds. The CDC renewed its own warning that people with weak immune systems should not eat sprouts. …
March 13, 2003 •
E. coli Lawsuit Filed Against Spokane Produce
Marler Clark filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Spokane girl who suffered severe complications from an E. coli O157:H7 infection after consuming Spokane Produce brand romaine lettuce at a dance camp at Eastern Washington University (EWU) in 2002. Spokane Produce was implicated by the FDA, Spokane Health Department and …
March 12, 2003 • Outbreaks
Fingerprints Key to E. coli Outbreaks
The USDA uses Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) testing when E. coli O157:H7 and other deadly pathogens are found in ground beef. The USDA routinely samples ground beef collected at retail outlets. When E. coli O157:H7 is found in such samples, a recall usually results. By comparing PFGE test results …
March 08, 2003 • Outbreaks
Doubletree Hotel Shigella Outbreak Lawsuit - Colorado (2003)
Marler Clark's attorneys represented three victims of a Shigella outbreak linked to food served at the Doubletree Hotel in Westminster, CO, in 2003. Food handlers ill with Shigella were the suspected source of the outbreak. …
January 28, 2003 • Press Releases
Marler Clark, E. coli victims sue BJ’s Wholesale Club for $25 Million
Marler Clark represented the families of two Orangeburg, New York, children in litigation against BJ's Wholesale Club after ground beef purchased from the chain's West Nyack store was determined to be the source of the girls' E. coli infections. One of the girls was hospitalized for over a month with …
January 28, 2003 • Press Releases
Lawsuit Filed against KFC after Children become Ill with Salmonella Poisoning
A lawsuit was filed on behalf of two Erie, Colorado, children who became ill with Salmonella Newport infections after eating at a Lafayette, Colorado, KFC in January, 2002. The children suffered severe cramping, diarrhea, and vomiting throughout the course of their salmonella infections, and a two-year-old boy was hospitalized for …
January 24, 2003 • Press Releases
Marler Clark files lawsuit against Brook-Lea
Marler Clark, the attorneys for 70 victims of salmonella poisoning at the Brook-Lea Country Club in Rochester, New York, sought punitive damages for country club's 'egregious behavior'. Two outbreaks of Salmonella Enteritidis at the Brook-Lea Country Club in June and July, 2002, resulted in 106 culture-confirmed salmonella infections. …
January 15, 2003 • Press Releases
Food Poisoning Legal Team Joins Fight for Laraway School Victims
Nearly one-third of the victims from the November 25, 2002, anhydrous ammonia poisoning at Laraway Elementary School in Joliet, Illinois were represented by Marler Clark. Marler Clark signed on as co-counsel with the Chicago-based law firm of James P. Crawley & Associates in a lawsuit filed against Gateway Cold Storage …
November 04, 2002 • Press Releases
Thirty-Five Western Sizzlin Salmonella Lawsuits Filed
Marler Clark filed 35 lawsuits against the Western Sizzlin Corporation on behalf of victims of salmonella poisoning. The complaint sought compensation for damages resulting from a salmonella outbreak in April, 2002 at the Western Sizzlin in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. …
October 25, 2002 • Press Releases
More Families File Lawsuits over E. coli Poisoning
Marler Clark filed lawsuits on behalf of two more Wooster, Ohio, families whose children contracted E. coli O157:H7 after eating at the King Garden restaurant in Wooster. One of the children developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) and suffered kidney failure. …
October 11, 2002 • Press Releases
Lawsuit filed against Emmpak, Cargill
Marler Clark filed a lawsuit against Emmpak Foods, Inc., a subsidiary of Cargill, Inc., on behalf of a Neenah, Wisconsin, couple. Health officials called a leftover hamburger found in the couple’s refrigerator the “miracle burger” because it enabled them to trace the infections to Emmpak ground beef through genetic testing …
October 07, 2002 • Press Releases
E. coli Suit Filed Against King Garden Buffet
Marler Clark filed a lawsuit against the King Garden Restaurant in Wooster, Ohio, on behalf of a 2-year-old girl who developed an E. coli O157:H7 infection after eating at the restaurant. …
October 01, 2002 • Press Releases
Food Safety Attorneys Call on Emmpak to Release Test Results
Marler Clark called on Emmpak Foods Inc. to release all inspection records and microbiological test results related to the operation of its Peck Meats plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin after an E. coli outbreak sickened dozens of consumers. …
September 30, 2002 • Outbreaks
Lightning Strikes Emmpak and Excel again - and again
The deadly E. coli O157:H7 bacteria struck again – sickening at least 59 people in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois. The outbreak occured at the end of the Milwaukee Sizzler restaurant E. coli outbreak litigation, after a summer plagued with ground beef recalls, and just days after the United States Department …
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