The CDC reports: Shigellosis is a nationally notifiable diarrheal illness caused by gram-negative bacteria. Shigella infection is spread through fecal-oral transmission and sexual contact. Although most infections are self-limited, antibiotics are indicated for severe illness or to reduce transmission in settings with high risk for spread. Since 2015, a growing proportion of cases has been caused by […]
In a tragic story of how our food system fails families, Madeline Drexler’s article “What She Ate Almost Killed Her” for Good Housekeeping paints the painful tale of one little girl’s battle with death, all because she ate a hamburger. On June 30, 2002, ConAgra recalled 354,200 pounds of ground beef. On July 16, Kristi […]
Going to a BBQ? Bring your meat thermometer, The Essential Summer BBQ Accessory. “The only safe hamburger is one cooked to 160 degrees,” says Nancy Donley, president of the nonprofit Safe Tables Our Priority, a food-safety advocacy group. “Research has shown color is not a reliable indicator.” Donley learned about food safety the hard way […]
Here at Marler Clark, we like to take swinging from the chandeliers to a whole new level, especially when the swinging is for a good cause like the BRIBE committee. Like Tennessean Andrew Jackson’s drunken supporters swinging from chandeliers at the rowdy 1829 White House inauguration bash that signaled the defeat of the snobbish East […]
In the article “A New Day In Court” published in CFO Magazine, Steven L. Mintz writes: Awards often seem mysterious to Chris Campos, whose Teaneck, New Jersey based CPA firm, Campos & Stratis, investigates product- liability claims on behalf of insurance companies. He finds even favorable outcomes puzzling, when emotions in the jury room overwhelm, […]
Kevin Kelton, a political and humor columnist, wrote an interesting article called The RNC’s Latest Political Target: Frivolous Lawsuits for the Washington Dispatch. It begins: “First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Of course, after Shakespeare wrote that populist sound bite, Sir Francis Bacon took credit for his plays and Hollywood screenwriters took […]
Stephanie Banchero of the Chicago Tribune reported on October 9 that, in an unusual move, federal authorities have indicted a Downstate man on felony charges of conspiracy, transporting uninspected poultry and lying to federal authorities in a 2002 food poisoning incident that sickened more than 100 children and teachers at a Joliet school. Edward L. […]
As Ann Strosnider, reporter for the Kitsap Sun, said in her story Attorney says higher education needs citizen leadership, I told a luncheon gathering of Olympic College supporters Monday that higher education faces a crisis in Washington state, and the state Legislature refuses to show any leadership. “The stakes are enormous,” the Bainbridge Island resident […]
As Kitsap Sun Staff Writer Ann Strosnider has reported, I will be the featured speaker at the college’s annual community luncheon Monday at Bremer Student Center. The luncheon is the kickoff event to the annual fund-raising campaign for the Olympic College Foundation, which raises money for student scholarships and grants, program grants, and faculty development […]
Globe Staff Writer Wally Kennedy has reported that the E. coli outbreak that hit a Joplin day-care center in May and June, affecting as many as 26 children, has generated its first lawsuit. My firm filed this lawsuit against Kid’s Korner Day Care Center last week on behalf of Patricia and Asa Wasden, parents of […]
As Marlene Hunt of the PioneerLocal reported, a settlement has been reached between 49 victims of the salmonella outbreak traced to the former Chili’s Bar and Grill in Vernon Hills and Brinker International, owner of the franchise. My firm filed individual lawsuits and a class action lawsuit in federal court in Chicago during 2003 seeking […]
Marler Clark filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of Patricia and Asa Wasden, the parents of Ian Wasden, a two-year-old boy who suffered from Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) after contracting E. coli O157:H7 last June at Kid’s Korner daycare in Joplin. “After the first child attending Kid’s Korner tested positive for E. coli, the daycare […]
On Thursday, Marler Clark filed a second E. coli lawsuit against Sodexho, Inc., the food provider for Sequoias Portola Valley retirement facility. This second lawsuit was filed by Sarah Ish, one of thirteen Sequoias residents and employees who confirmed positive with E. coli infections during the outbreak, and one of seven residents who were hospitalized […]
As the Associated Press reported today, Outback Steakhouse Inc. this week closed on its $42.5 million deal for the rights to 76 restaurants in the Chi-Chi’s chain, which was beleaguered by bankruptcy and a hepatitis outbreak. Chi-Chi’s was left reeling by a hepatitis A outbreak last fall that sickened 660 people who ate at a […]
Two confirmed and four probable cases of E. coli O157:H7 bacterial illnesses have been linked by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) to ground beef purchased at B & G Foods of Galesburg, IL. The product implicated in the illnesses was purchased from B & G between August 10 and August 16, 2004. A […]