Personal Injury Law

Food Safety Guide for Hepatitis A

Posted on March 30, 2010
Hepatitis A is the only common vaccine-preventable foodborne disease in the United States (Fiore, 2004). It is one of five human hepatitis viruses that primarily infect the human liver and cause human illness. Unlike hepatitis B and C, hepatitis A doesn't develop into chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis, which are both potentially fatal conditions; however, infection with the hepatitis A virus (HAV) can still lead to acute liver failure and death...

Avoiding Hepatitis A While Traveling

Posted on March 27, 2010
Jill Blocker over at Eat, Drink and Be wrote a great summary of what to pay attention to while traveling Spring is here and people who were bundled up in their homes all winter are finally ready to go out into the world, but as the vacation season begins, remembering food and water safety can help prevent painful vacation memories...

Mediations scheduled this week in 2009 Milan Hepatitis A Outbreak

Posted on March 07, 2010
On July 13, 2009, Rock Island County Health Department officials informed the McDonald's corporate office that a McDonald's franchise in Milan, Illinois had an employee infected with hepatitis A. The employee had been working at that restaurant over the past week...

Hepatitis A Litigation Site Updated

Posted on February 21, 2010
The Marler Clark hepatitis A lawyers developed this site to keep our clients up-to-date on current litigation being prosecuted by Marler Clark throughout the United States. The site is also a resource for Marler Clark co-counsel in hepatitis A cases, print and broadcast media who are working on stories about hepatitis A outbreaks and outbreak-related lawsuits, and potential clients who are researching Marler Clark in anticipation of filing a hepatitis A claim...

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Rock Island County Health Department slates 2nd-dose hepatitis A clinics

Posted on February 01, 2010
According to the Quad-City Times, the Rock Island County Health Department announced this morning that it has scheduled a series of February clinics designed to get a second dose of hepatitis A vaccine to people who were inoculated last summer in connection with an outbreak of the disease...

About Hepatitis A - A Foodborne Illness

Posted on January 30, 2010
The Hepatitis A Blog supplements Marler Clark's Web site www.about-hepatitis.com, a site that provides information about hepatitis A, the symptoms and risks of infection, hepatitis A testing/detection, and how to prevent the spread of the hepatitis A virus...

Illinois McDonald Hepatitis A Outbreak Report

Posted on December 07, 2009

McDonalds confirmed as link to Milan Hepatitis A Outbreak

Posted on December 03, 2009
The Illinois Health Department has released its investigation into this summer's hepatitis A outbreak. It concluded the source of most of cases was food eaten at the Milan McDonald's. The first case of hepatitis A in the Quad city area was discovered last June...

Hepatitis A is the most common type of hepatitis

Posted on November 20, 2009
Washing your hands is one of the best ways to protect against this serious liver disease Are you traveling to another country, such as Mexico, Africa, Central or South America, Asia (except Japan) or Eastern Europe? Do you have children in a daycare center, work directly with children or help ill adults? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should consider receiving the hepatitis A vaccine...

Trinity Hospital pays Rock Island County $80,000 for Hepatitis A Outbreak

Posted on October 16, 2009
According to the Quad-City Times, Trinity Regional Health System has paid $80,000 to Rock Island County to help reimburse unanticipated expenses related to this past summer's hepatitis A outbreak. Trinity Medical Center treated some of at least 32 patients who came down with the liver disease in July and August...

Iowa Reports On Spike In Hepatitis A Cases Experienced Last Year

Posted on September 22, 2009
Iowa experienced a 294 percent increase in Hepatitis A cases over the previous three-year period, the state Department of Public Health reports. According to the annual Iowa Surveillance of Notifiable and Other Diseases report, the Cornhusker State went from a low of 13 Hepatitis A cases statewide in 2006 to 109 cases in 2008...

Milan McDonald's Stays On the Menu At Rock Island Courthouse

Posted on September 07, 2009
Quad Cities residents are not going to soon forget the Hepatitis A outbreak at the Milan McDonald's. An Alpha, IL couple, Nichole and John Shannon, became the latest to sue McDonald's and Milan, IL franchise owner Kevin Murphy in Rock Island County Circuit Court late last week...

Cluster of Hepatitis A Cases Linked To Maine's Remote Swan's Island Claims At Least One Life

Posted on September 01, 2009
Swan's Island is a 30-minute ride on the Captain Henry Lee, a 17-car ferry out of Bass Harbor, Maine. When you arrive after Labor Day, there are only about 350 people on the 7,000 acre island. Now one has died and at least five others are ill --all from Hepatitis A...

Free Hepatitis A Vaccines Offers To Imperial Beach Users

Posted on August 24, 2009
Outside of the Milan, IL McDonald's, the one place where you really should not be unless you have a Hepatitis A vaccine is Imperial Beach, CA. That's because northbound ocean currents funnel the polluted water from the Tijuana River into the Imperial Beach surf...

"It's Possible This Outbreak Is Not Over"--30 Now Confirmed With Hepatitis A

Posted on August 12, 2009
 Another lawsuit on behalf of a customer sickened in the Milan McDonald's outbreak was filed today in the Circuit Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Rock Island County. The lawsuit was filed against McDonald's Inc., and Kevin Murphy, the owner of the McDonald's restaurant at 400 West First Street in Milan, IL, by Marler Clark, the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm, and Craig Mielke of the Illinois firm of Foote, Meyers, Mielke & Flowers LLC...

Milan, IL Hepatitis A Outbreak Broke One Month Ago Today At The McDonald's That Never Really Cleaned Up Its Act

Posted on August 10, 2009
One month ago today –before two of its employees exposed up to 10,000 people and infected at least 26 with Hepatitis A – the McDonald's in Milan, IL would not have made the list for a book of business success stories like Jim Collins' 'From Good To Great...

Another Hepatitis Lawsuit Filed Against Illinois McDonald's - Third Legal Action in Outbreak Tied to Sick Food Worker

Posted on August 07, 2009
Another lawsuit on behalf of a customer sickened in the Milan McDonald's outbreak was filed today in the Circuit Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Rock Island County. The lawsuit was filed against McDonald's Inc., and Kevin Murphy, the owner of the McDonald's restaurant at 400 West First Street in Milan, IL, by Marler Clark, the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm, and Craig Mielke of the Illinois firm of Foote, Meyers, Mielke & Flowers LLC...

Quad City Health Officials Still Cleaning Up From Hepatitis A Outbreak

Posted on July 30, 2009
The Milan McDonald's in Rock County, IL is doing normal business again, while health officials continue to clean up the Hepatitis A problem. Another confirmed case of Hepatitis A brings the count for the outbreak to 26. Free inoculation clinics in Rock County handed out 5,366 does of either the Hepatitis A vaccine or immune globulin...

Rock Island's Trinity Medical Center Steps Forward To Take Some Of The Blame For Milan McDonald's Outbreak

Posted on July 25, 2009
If confession is good for the soul, Trinity Medical Center's Vice President for Hospital Operations Kathy Cunningham must be feeling better tonight. On behalf of hospital, she stepped forward today to admit Trinity dropped the ball in not reporting a June Hepatitis A case to the Rock Island County Health Department within 24 hours as required by Illinois state law...

Rock County Health Department Has Some Explaining To Do About Those Dates Upon Which Hepatitis A Was Reported

Posted on July 22, 2009
The Hepatitis A outbreak associated with the McDonald's in Milan, IL today is up to 23 confirmed cases, including two employees of the fast-food restaurant.  Two new cases from Scott County, IA, which like Rock County, IL is part of the two-state Quad Cities region...

Class Action Lawsuit Filed On Behalf Of Ten Thousand People May Have Been Exposed to Hepatitis A at Milan,IL McDonald's

Posted on July 21, 2009
  A class action lawsuit was filed today in the Circuit Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Rock Island County against McDonald's Inc., and Kevin Murphy, the owner of the McDonald's restaurant at 400 West First Street in Milan, Illinois. Marler Clark, the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm, and the Illinois firm of Foote, Meyers, Mielke & Flowers LLC, filed the lawsuit on behalf of the named plaintiff, Cody Patterson, and all others who were forced to receive Immune globulin (IG) shots after being exposed to the hepatitis A virus (HAV) at the Milan McDonald's...

Rock Island County Politics Heats Up Over Hepatitis A Outbreak Linked To Milan McDonald's

Posted on July 20, 2009
The chairman of the Rock Island County Board is calling for Sheriff Michael T. Huff to investigate the Hepatitis A outbreak linked to the McDonald's in Milan, IL. Democrat Jim Bohnsack, who chairs the 25-member County Board, told the local News 8 that public health and tax dollars at stake, he wants to know whether the outbreak could have been avoided and who's at fault...

Quad-City Times & KWQC-TV6 Come Up With Much Of What We Need To Know About Hepatitis A Outbreak At Milan McDonalds

Posted on July 19, 2009
Thank goodness for what is left of a free press. If not for the Quad-City Times and KWQC, the folks of Rock Island County would not know the following about the Hepatitis A outbreak: From KWQC - Hepatitis A Outbreak Latest Rock Island County now has 14 with Hepatitis A...

The Hart Family Deals with McDonald's Hepatitis A Outbreak in Illinois

Posted on July 18, 2009
Local health departments continue to confirm 19 cases across Rock Island, Henry, Mercer and Woodford Counties. And those related to victims of the outbreak are starting to get vaccinated. According to QUAD TV, one family is struggling: The Harts visited the Rock Island County health Department for their first shot in a series to combat Hepatitis A...

Milan, IL McDonalds Linked to 19 Confirmed Cases of Hepatitis A

Posted on July 17, 2009
The McDonalds in Milan, IL is closed and at the center of an investigation into a possible Hepatitis A outbreak. It may be linked to either a customer or employee of the fast-food restaurant. There were 19 confirmed cases of Hepatitis A reported in the area by Thursday afternoon that appear related to the McDonalds...

Illinois State Public Health Director Cautions Residents of a Cluster of Hepatitis A Cases So far 11 confirmed cases

Posted on July 17, 2009
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Dr. Damon T. Arnold, state public health director, is reminding people of the importance of proper hand hygiene after reports of 11 confirmed and two suspected cases of hepatitis A were reported in residents living in Henry, Mercer and Rock Island counties...

Illinois Health Officials Campaign To Raise Hepatitis A Immunization Rates

Posted on July 13, 2009
Illinois health officials are reminding parents  they should get hepatitis A protection for their children. The rate of child immunizations for hepatitis A is increasing, almost doubling nationally from 26 percent in 2006 to 47 percent in 2007...

Michigan Mom Shares Her Daughter's Experience With Hepatitis A

Posted on July 05, 2009
Kathy Dopp of Safe Tables Our Priority (S.T.O.P.) advocates for a stronger federal food safety bill in hometown newspaper, the Battlecreek Enquirer. In doing so, she tells the story of her daughter's illness after contracting Hepatitis A from Mexican strawberries a decade ago...

Pets And Some Meat Consumption Play Important Role In HEV, New Study Says

Posted on July 01, 2009
Hepatitis E, like Hepatitis A, is a virus that can be spread through food.  It does not get as much attention as Hepatitis A because it is thought to be rare.  But, how that is understood may be changing. The prestigious Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is out with a study that concludes that exposure to the Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) is fairly common--but disease rarely follows the exposure...

American Society for Microbiology honors Stanley A. Plotkin

Posted on June 10, 2009
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Maurice Hilleman/Merck Award has gone to Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, for his lifetime of dedication to vaccinology, including his role in developing vaccines for Hepatitis A...

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