A lawsuit will be filed today 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 plaintiff in the lawsuit is Anne Herwig, a Minneapolis resident who
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have announced that the incidence of E. coli O157:H7 infection traced to ground beef products had significantly declined. CDC attributed the decline to the implementation of a new set of recommendations from the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service in 2002 and the beef industry’s subsequent enhancement of
Dee Creek Farms, the Washington dairy that was the source of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak among Washington and Oregon residents in 2005, has recently obtained a license to sell raw goats milk.
After the farm underwent renovations and constructed a milking area, the Washington Department of Agriculture granted Dee Creek Farms a license to
Marler Clark client Teresa Kaiser was recently interviewed by CNN regarding her E. coli infection.
Teresa became ill with an E. coli infection and suffered kidney failure after eating E. coli-contaminated lettuce at a Taco John’s restaurant in Minnesota last November. Although her kidney function is up to around 44 percent, Teresa now has
A settlement has been announced involving lawsuits filed against the Florida Strawberry Festival.
Health officials traced the 2005 E. coli outbreak to a petting zoo owned by Plant City-based Ag-Venture Farms, which had brought more than a dozen goats, sheep, cows and chickens to the Florida Strawberry Festival, the Florida State Fair in Tampa and
Two victims of the 2005 E. coli outbreak traced to a petting zoo at the Florida Strawberry Festival have resolved claims brought against the festival last week.
Both victims, a woman and a young child, suffered hemolytic uremic syndrome and required extensive medical treatment, including dialysis, after contracting E. coli O157:H7 at the 2005 Florida
The Morning Call reports that Taco Bell may be reaching a settlement in their E. coli outbreak class action lawsuit.
“We’ve got a promise from Taco Bell that it will immediately mediate these cases,” said William Marler, who represents 20 clients who say Taco Bell’s food made them ill. “I’m going to sit down with
The California Department of Health Services and the FDA have released their final report on the spinach E. coli outbreak.
Authorities for the first time said they had isolated the deadly E. coli strain on Paicines Ranch in San Benito County from a field the ranch leased to Mission Organics, a spinach grower.
They found
In an article by Fred Lucas of CNSNews.com on March 09, 2007 I was quoted:
Though the state of California did not specifically identify the property where the contaminated spinach came from, a law firm which brought a class-action suit against Dole Food Company — which packaged some of the contaminated spinach — added Mission
Los Angeles Times reporter Jerry Hirsch wrote about Taco Bell’s five percent drop in earnings in the fourth quarter of 2006, and noted that Taco Bell cited a "produce sourcing" issue as part of the reason for the drop in earnings. E. coli, according to Hirsch’s article, was conspicuously absent in Yum! Brands’ earnings
