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April 06, 2008
Food Claims and Litigation
Written by Bill Marler for the February, 2005 Food Safety In-Sight newsletter by Environ Health Associates, Inc, Bill's paper on foodborne illness and tort begins, "In a perfect food safety world, operators of food facilities would place the health of the consumer above all else. Science-based foodborne illness prevention systems …
April 06, 2008
How to document a food poisoning case
In an article printed in the November, 2004 issue of Trial Magazine, written by Bill Marler and Dave Babcock, the attorneys explain: As a general rule, food poisoning cases are products liability cases.2 In other words, they are brought forward under the doctrine of strict liability. Since it does not …
April 06, 2008
Why Hepatitis A Vaccinations are Bad for (My) Business
This article by Denis Stearns appeared in the July/August 2002 issue of Food Quality Magazine. Mr. Stearns begins the article, "Let’s be honest: as an attorney who makes a substantial portion of his living by filing lawsuits against restaurants, it’s not in my financial interest to have the National Restaurant …
March 26, 2008
E. coli Lawsuit Results in a $4.75 Million Jury Award for Injured Children
"E. coli Lawsuit Results in a $4.75 Million Jury Award for Injured Children: A Case Study in How Not to Learn About Food Safety" is article about the Almquist, et al. v. Finley School District E. coli O157:H7 litigation, written by Denis Stearns. In the article, Mr. Stearns argues that …
September 28, 2006
How a Tiny Law Firm Made Hay Out of Tainted Spinach
Before health officials warned the public about bad spinach, before grocers yanked fresh spinach off their shelves, before consumers cleaned out their refrigerators, the Seattle law firm Marler Clark had filed its first bad-spinach lawsuit. …
August 29, 2005
Preempting Food Safety
Denis Stearns wrote, “Preempting Food Safety: An Examination of USDA Rulemaking and its E. coli O157:H7 Policy in Light of Estate of Kriefall ex rel. Kriefall v. Excel Corporation” for the Fall 2005 issue of the Journal of Food Law and Policy. The article uses the Kriefall decision to examine …
July 01, 2002
Commentary on USDA rule-making process
In his 2002 commentary for the July/August edition of Food Protection Report, Denis Stearns writes about the Federal Meat Inspection Act and USDA’s rule-making process. In the commentary, titled, "USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service Should Say What It Means, Mean What It Says--and Say It Clearly," he concludes, “[I]f …
March 07, 2001
The Inside Story: How 11 Schoolkids Got $4.75 Million in E. coli Lawsuit
“Once you [are hit with] a lawsuit, and it has been proven that your product was the source of the bacteria, there's not a whole lot you can do. Hopefully, your company has plenty of insurance because these cases are not cheap.”--Attorney William Marler, of Marler Clark …
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