Federal health officials were uncertain as to whether the bacterial strain that contaminated spinach and infected people coast to coast is unusually virulent, but more than half the reported cases have required hospitalization.
A key unanswered question is whether the strain of E. coli O157:H7 is particularly virulent, reports Newsday writer Delthia Ricks. At this
G&G Restaurant Corp, owner of Hamilton’s Restaurant in Glenview, Illinois, filed what could be the first in a bumper crop of class-action lawsuits on Monday.
Class-action suits allow numerous plaintiffs with relatively small claims to band together to seek redress.
Unlike other actions filed in the latest outbreak, the lawsuit does not allege physical harm
Shaila Leafty and her young son have joined what is expected to be a growing number of people who are suing a California spinach producer blamed for a national E. coli outbreak. Her son Brayden’s illness is just one of an estimated 15 E. coli cases reported in Utah since the spinach-related outbreak was discovered.
Marler Clark has retained the Buffalo-Rochester based law firm Underberg & Kessler to assist with litigation resulting from the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak traced to bagged spinach. Marler Clark has filed lawsuits on behalf of Wisconsin, Oregon, and Utah residents, and is currently investigating claims on behalf of New York residents who have contacted the
A Cambridge family is asking health officials whether their 23-month-old who died from E. coli got the bacteria from tainted spinach that’s blamed for sickening more than 100 people nationwide.
Olivia Perkins became sick in early August with stomach cramps and bloody diarrhea, Harris said. After trips to local doctors, she was brought to Children’s
Nebraska health officials have confirmed the state’s first case of E. coli linked to spinach.
Nebraska will also be reinvestigating 17 other known cases of E. coli that have occurred in the state since August. In each of those cases, local health authorities will ask people whether they had eaten fresh, store-bought spinach within 10
On Monday, Marler Clark will file another lawsuit on behalf of a victim of the recent E. coli O157:H7 outbreak traced to contaminated spinach. The lawsuit will be filed against Natural Selection Foods, LLC and National Selection Foods Manufacturing, LLC in federal court in Utah on behalf of Murray, Utah resident Sheila Leafty and her young son, Brayden. Brayden is one of at least 14 Utah residents who have become ill with E. coli O157:H7 infections after eating contaminated spinach produced by Natural Selection Foods.
Marler Clark also added both Natural Selection companies to two lawsuits that the firm filed last week in federal court in Oregon and Wisconsin against Dole Food Company. Health officials in those states have reported that at least 19 residents (5 in Oregon and 14 in Wisconsin) were confirmed to be part of the outbreak. On Sunday, the Food and Drug Administration reported that 109 individuals in 19 states, sixteen of whom have developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (see www.about-hus.com), have been confirmed as being part of the outbreak. One Wisconsin resident died after suffering complications of E. coli infection.
As the grower and producer, Natural Selections Foods should have been consumers’ first line of defense against E. coli entering the food supply. Instead, this company allowed contaminated produce to enter the marketplace and caused one of the largest fresh produce-related outbreaks in recent history.Continue Reading Utah child sues California spinach producer and manufacturer over E. coli illness
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control activated a "war room" of health experts at its Atlanta headquarters Saturday to deal with a nationwide outbreak of the E.coli bacteria on leafy fresh spinach that has killed at least one person, sickened more than 100 and caused restaurants and groceries across the nation to pull the vegetable
Farm/Natural Selection Foods plant in San Juan Bautista has been linked to a nationwide E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nearly 100 others.
The E. coli outbreak is the sixth outbreak blamed on the nation’s fresh produce in five years, despite ever-tightening efforts to keep spinach and lettuce clean.
It was
With their 6-year-old son already hospitalized with E. coli-related complications, a Brookfield couple wonders if their 3-year-old daughter might also be among those sickened in a nationwide outbreak of the bacteria linked to tainted spinach.
Anne Grintjes said that her daughter is now complaining of stomach cramps, a symptom her son had before being