Marler Clark has filed the firm’s second E. coli lawsuit against Cargill today on behalf of Elk River, Minnesota, residents John and Barb Reber and their son, Scott.
Scott Reber became ill with an E. coli infection and was hospitalized for three days after eating a hamburger made from a Cargill ground beef patty.
“To
The Ithaca Journal’s coverage of an E. coli lawsuit filed against Topps by Marler Clark highlights the firm’s decision to ask the Court to award punitive damages to an 8-year-old child and his mother, who both became ill with E. coli infections after eating Topps ground beef patties at a barbecue.
According to the Associated
A lawsuit seeking punitive damages was filed today against Topps, the New Jersey beef supplier that recalled nearly a year’s supply of frozen ground beef patties after its products were identified as the source of an E. coli outbreak in September.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Keith and Kristin Goodwin and their 8-year-old
Seattle attorney William Marler called today on Cargill to front medical costs for victims of an E. coli outbreak traced to the company’s frozen ground beef patties. Victims of the outbreak include families of children who have been hospitalized in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
“Without assistance in the form of monetary compensation for
A lawsuit has been filed against Topps Meat Company, the meat producer whose ground beef products have been identified as the source of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak, and who expanded a ground beef recall to include 21.7 million pounds of meat over the weekend.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Albany County, New
Today, Hawaiian health officials announced that an E. coli outbreak in March has been traced to lettuce grown on Kaua’i.
All eight people were most likely infected by eating contaminated lettuce from a Kaua’i farm, where heavy rains and flooding had carried E. coli bacteria from a cattle pasture onto the lettuce patch.
Officials declined
A lawsuit was filed today against the Meat Market, a Fresno, California, business that was identified as the source of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in May. The lawsuit was filed in Fresno County Superior Court by Seattle-based Marler Clark and San Diego-based Gordon & Holmes on behalf of Donald Jorgensen, an 80-year-old Fresno resident
Chris Waldrop, director of the Consumer Federation of America’s Food Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. sees a disturbing return:
"It looked like (improvements in food safety) were working, but something has happened. Something’s going on in the food supply chain. We need to figure out what that is. We can’t let our guard down. We
The first lawsuit stemming from an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak traced to ground beef produced by United Food Group, Inc. was filed yesterday in Riverside County Superior Court, in California.
The lawsuit was filed against UFG by Seattle-based Marler Clark and San Diego-based Gordon and Holmes on behalf of Lawrence Fournier and Cynthia Centura of
A lawsuit has been filed against PM Beef Holdings, LLC and Lund Food Holdings, Inc., the producer and retailer who sold E. coli-contaminated ground beef traced to an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in Minnesota and Wisconsin residents in April, 2007.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a Minneapolis, Minnesota, woman who became