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October 19, 2022
Getting to Know Bill Marler: Distinguished Food Safety Attorney Has a Huge Heart for Victims + Survivors
In his work as an accomplished attorney and national food safety expert, Bill wears many professional hats that keep him hopping. At Marler Clark, “The Food Safety Law Firm,” Bill has represented and fought side-by-side thousands of people who’ve suffered the devastating health and life consequences of contaminated food products …
October 19, 2022
He helped make burgers safer. Now he's fighting food poisoning again.
Washington Post | By Kimberly Kin | 2020 Bill Marler, the Seattle lawyer who represented hundreds of victims in the Jack in the Box food poisoning case in the 1990s, was outraged by the avoidable tragedy that sickened 700 and claimed the lives of four children. He courted the …
October 19, 2022
Bill Marler On Food Safety & COVID-19
Prominent food safety attorney Bill Marler of Marler Clark LLP, who has been representing victims of foodborne illnesses since the early 1990s, recently spoke with Law360 about practicing remotely from his home on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound and about food safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. …
October 19, 2022
The Food Safety Imperative: Talking With Attorney Bill Marler
The massive 1993 E. coli outbreak linked to Jack in the Box burgers was a turning point for both food safety in the United States and young attorney Bill Marler. The experience of representing 9-year-old victim Brianne Kiner against the fast-food giant inspired Marler to focus his fledgling law career …
October 19, 2022
3 key rules to follow when eating at restaurants, according to a lawyer who represents food poisoning victims
Bill Marler is an attorney who specializes in food borne illness cases.Most of the cases he's worked on have involved either undercooked or prepackaged foods.He's learned to always order food cooked well done and to avoid salads to reduce his risk of food poisoning. When it comes to eating carefully …
October 19, 2022
A Safer Food Supply
Attorney Bill Marler of Marler Clark in Seattle has dedicated his career to representing people injured by foodborne illness and to advocating for better food safety regulation. Trial spoke with him about what’s challenging about these cases, common misconceptions, and what more needs to be done to protect consumers. …
August 15, 2022
Food Poisoning and unsafe temperatures. Many meal kit companies aren't FDA regulated
Days after trying a new lentil product from the meal subscription company Daily Harvest, Los Angeles resident Jackie Sloboda was debilitated by full-body itching, stabbing abdominal pains and jaundice that turned her skin and eyes yellow. …
April 20, 2022
'What else have they been missing?' Massive infant formula recall raises questions about FDA inspections
The very day that the FDA was told that a baby had been hospitalized with a potentially deadly bacterial infection after consuming infant formula, the agency’s own inspectors were in the plant that made the formula and found nothing serious enough to warrant regulatory action. Marler said that when he …
April 08, 2022
The Past, Present and Future of Food Safety
“Upton Sinclair was writing a book about the labor problems in the Chicago stockyards, but what freaked everybody out was how meat was actually being made and whether sausage had sawdust or whatever in it,” said Bill Marler, foodborne illness attorney and managing partner at Marler Clark, The Food Safety …
November 23, 2021
Politico - The Bubbling Salmonella Food Fight
THE COMING FIGHT OVER SALMONELLA: There hasn’t been a high-profile fight over food safety in Washington in a while, but that might be about to change. Consumer advocates are upping their pressure on USDA to declare certain strains of salmonella as adulterants, essentially rendering them illegal in meat and poultry …
April 11, 2021
March 26, 2021
CBC: Romaine recalls: Why our salads can make us sick
Canada has been hit by a number of romaine lettuce recalls. We set out to the U.S., where the majority of our leafy greens come from, to dig up why E. coli outbreaks continue to plague our food supply. We meet one B.C. family whose lives have been forever changed …
November 16, 2020
Is Convenience Worth the Risk: Bill Marler, Food Poisoning Lawyer, Warns Consumers of Food Safety with Food Delivery Services.
After a recent fish outbreak from Hello Fresh in New Zealand, Early Edition's Kaye Hawkesby interviews Bill Marler, food poisoning lawyer, on iHeart Radio. “The home delivery boom we've seen during Covid 19 is ripe for problems like this," Bill warned. …
November 11, 2020
Marler Clark, the Food Poisoning Lawyers, Interviewed in Foodservice Consultant Magazine
Bill Marler and his associates have dedicated significant amounts of time and money to educate and advocate all who will listen to what needs to be done to prevent future lawsuits. Here are some key pro-consumer actions taken by Bill and his team: Helped to pass the 2010-11 Food and …
June 23, 2020
A Goodstory Podcast - When It Mattered with Chitra Ragavan
A teenage runaway tries his hand at migrant work and becomes one of the most powerful food safety lawyers in the world / William Marler, Food Poisoning Attorney. …
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