Personal Injury Law

Parent's Food Safety Guide for E. coli and Salmonella

Posted on December 11, 2009
We have had the E. coli guide for awhile and are in the process of finalizing the Salmonella guide.  Any suggestions?  Click on picture to download:

Raw Milk E. coli and Campylobacter Illnesses - A Big Cold Glass of Reality

Posted on December 10, 2009
I know my friends over at Weston Price Association and the Complete Patient think I spend all my time beating up on raw milk (hmm, did they notice what I did to Cargill last week?).  What really gets to me about the "raw milkies," is their religious passion for their personal freedom trumping the fact that people get very sick from drinking raw milk on more than a few occasions...

E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Linked to Raw Milk in California in 2006

Posted on December 10, 2009
On September 18, 2006, the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) opened an investigation of a possible outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections after receiving reports of two patients who had been hospitalized with HUS.  One was culture confirmed as infected with E...

Does the Meat Industry and the USDA and FSIS Ever Use Its Collective Brains?

Posted on December 09, 2009
In 2008 we saw this shocking video of the use of "downer cows" in the food supply at a company that supplied the meat into the food supply broadly (143,000,000 pounds eventually recalled) and the school lunch program specifically. Now, more video today?  This time it is "dower pigs...

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Stewart Parnell, et al - Have You No Shame? Like Vultures on a Carcass

Posted on December 09, 2009
Coming up on about a year ago the CDC announced that Peanut Corporation of America was responsible for sickening over 700 and killing at least nine.  In hearings before the United States House of Representatives, peanut butter with Salmonella positive test results where shown to be knowingly shipped by Stewart Parnell and others...

Have a Very Marler Christmas

Posted on December 09, 2009
Only in a law firm that represents victims of food poisoning would there be a Christmas Tree with stuffed Salmonella and E. coli as ornaments. Wishing everyone a happy and healthy holiday season.

Bacillus cereus - Unilever Conducts Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Slim-Fast® Ready-to-Drink Products in Cans Due to Possible Health Risk

Posted on December 08, 2009
Unilever United States, Inc., in cooperation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is conducting a nationwide voluntary recall of all Slim-Fast® ready-to-drink (RTD) products in cans, due to the possibility of contamination with Bacillus cereus, a micro-organism, which may cause diarrhea and possibly nausea and/or vomiting...

CDC Warning - Princess, do not Kiss the Salmonella Frog

Posted on December 07, 2009
The CDC is investigating a multistate outbreak of human Salmonella serotype Typhimurium infections due to contact with water frogs including African Dwarf Frogs. Water frogs commonly live in aquariums or fish tanks. Amphibians such as frogs and reptiles such as turtles, are recognized as a source of human Salmonella infections...

It is against the law to have E. coli O157:H7 (a.k.a cow shit) in hamburger - Period

Posted on December 05, 2009
This morning's papers across the United States are covered with paralyzed, former dancer, Stephanie Smith's battle against food giant, Cargill. Cargill's hamburger, sold at Wal-Mart, nearly killed Stephanie with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, and has left her, with brain damage, with failing kidneys, with no bowel or bladder control, and facing a life confined to a bed or a wheel chair...

Dancer Paralyzed by E. coli Infection Sues Meat Giant Cargill for $100 Million

Posted on December 04, 2009
The Story of Stephanie Smith Captivated a Nation Stephanie Smith, the twenty-two year old Minnesota dance instructor left paralyzed by a burger tainted with E. coli filed suit today against Cargill, who produced the contaminated meat. Ms. Smith, whose 'The Burger that Shattered Her Life' profile in the New York Times was emailed all over the country, covered by hundreds of media outlets and galvanized legislators to change food laws, attempted mediation with the company, but was unable to come to a fair agreement with them...

More Video of what Cargill E. coli Hamburger did to Stephanie Smith

Posted on December 04, 2009
This video was produced by the New York Times less than two months ago:

Safeway and Beef Packers, Inc.'s (Cargill) Recall Ground Beef (AGAIN) in Arizona and New Mexico Linked to Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on December 04, 2009
Safeway in cooperation with Beef Packers, Inc.'s (Cargill) recall of 22,000 pounds of fresh ground beef that may be linked to an outbreak of Salmonella, Safeway Inc. is recalling fresh ground beef products with "Sell By' dates of September 28 through October 11, 2009...

UPDATE - Safeway and Beef Packers, Inc.'s (Cargill) Recall Ground Beef (AGAIN) in Arizona and New Mexico Linked to Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on December 04, 2009
Retail List - Safeway in cooperation with Beef Packers, Inc.'s (Cargill) recall of 22,000 pounds of fresh ground beef that may be linked to an outbreak of Salmonella, Safeway Inc. is recalling fresh ground beef products with "Sell By' dates of September 28 through October 11, 2009...

A Dancer's Fight with E. coli O157:H7

Posted on December 03, 2009
We are filing suit on behalf of Stephanie Smith, the young dancer profiled in the New York Times, against food giant Cargill in Federal Court.  Here is a video of her story:

Illinois Health Department Report on McDonald's Hepatitis A Outbreak - Full Report

Posted on December 03, 2009

E. coli Lawsuit to be filed against food giant Cargill on behalf of Stephanie Smith

Posted on December 03, 2009
In early October the New York Times profiled Stephanie Smith, the 22-year-old former dance who ate a hamburger in 2007, suffered severe Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and subsequent brain and kidney damage. She was hospitalized for nine months. She is in ongoing rehabilitation...

Illinois Department of Health Links Hepatitis A Outbreak to Employee Handwashing (lack thereof)!

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.  A state investigation has concluded most of the cases originated at the Milan McDonald's and most of the cases *would have been prevented* if only that one employee had properly washed hands...

Dungeness Valley Creamery and Whole Foods linked to Raw Milk E. coli Outbreak in Sequim, Washington

Posted on December 02, 2009
Washington State Department of Agriculture News Release: Dec. 2, 2009 Three recent E. coli infections in Washington have been linked to drinking raw, unpasteurized milk. As a result, the Washington state departments of Health and Agriculture are reminding consumers of the potential health hazards of these products...

E. coli O157:H7 in your hamburger can cause Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

Posted on December 02, 2009
Elizabeth Weise from USA Today, who has covered most of the E. coli outbreaks over the last dozen years, did a great job in her article, 'Family's nightmare began with secondary infection.' Faith suffered with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome linked to a 1998 taco meal served at Finley Elementary School in rural Eastern Washington...

Perfectly Healthy to Dead in Twelve Days - Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

Posted on December 02, 2009
My hero, Barb Kowalcyk.  Please listen to her story and her fight for Kevin's Law:

Two More E. coli Lawsuits Filed Against Ixtapa

Posted on December 01, 2009
We filed two more lawsuits yesterday against the Ixtapa Family Mexican Restaurant in Lake Stevens, Washington.  Laurie Bunney and Amanda Vest ate at Ixtapa on October 9, 2008 and became ill with E. coli O157:H7 infections in the following days. Both women incurred medical expenses and wage loss as a result of their E...

The 2009 ABA Journal Blawg 100 - Marlerblog on the List

Posted on November 30, 2009
According to the ABA Journal - These are the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.  The ABA's readers clued them in to a few law blogs they had never seen before, and you'll find them among the 40 blawgs that are new to the list this year...

Consumer Reports Calls Fowl - US Chickens Tainted with Salmonella and Campylobacter

Posted on November 30, 2009
Consumer Reports published - How safe is that chicken? Among the findings: • Campylobacter was in 62 percent of the chickens, salmonella was in 14 percent, and both bacteria were in 9 percent. Only 34 percent of the birds were clear of both pathogens...

Civil Lawsuit in Melamine Milk Scandal Sees the Inside of a Chinese Courtroom, Well at Least a Judge

Posted on November 28, 2009
The New York Times reporter, Edward Wong, reported a few hours ago that a hearing began Friday (our Thursday) in the first civil suit to be heard in a Chinese court involving parents suing a dairy company and a supermarket over selling tainted milk. In 2008 at least six children died and 300,000 were sickened from drinking melamine-tainted milk products...

Larry King and E. coli O157:H7 Deaths

Posted on November 27, 2009
A friend sent me the below Youtube videos of Larry King's visit with me and the mothers, and one grandmother, of children killed from eating E. coli O157:H7-tainted hamburger that ran last month.  This first video - the first ten minutes of the show - it then got a bit off-track as the hour went along...

Secrecy in Food Poisoning Settlements - Is it Time for Transparency?

Posted on November 27, 2009
I took the time today to read the Seattle Times article by Maureen O'Hagan, 'Seattle lawyer turns into healthy food crusader,' and I was struck by a discussion I had with the reporter: Marler, … says he and his firm, Marler Clark, have pried $500 million in settlements out of companies that have sickened customers...

Coming to an Iphone near you - Food Safety News

Posted on November 25, 2009

CDC Reports on California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Infections Associated with Beef from Fairbank Farms

Posted on November 25, 2009
State health departments, CDC, and the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) are investigating a multi-state outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections. On October 31, 2009, FSIS issued a notice about a recall of approximately 545,699 pounds of ground beef products from Fairbank Farms that may be contaminated with E...

I do not believe in the death penalty for selling tainted food, but you just have too wonder?

Posted on November 24, 2009
The big news in China after I got home from this year's China Food Safety Conference is "Pair Executed Over China Tainted Baby Milk" that is running in paper's around the world this morning (not actual photo): Two men have been executed for their part in China's tainted milk scandal...

Quote of the Day - With Friends Like These ........

Posted on November 23, 2009
"There's plenty of people in the meat industry who, if they looked in the rearview mirror and saw they accidentally ran over Bill Marler, they'd put the car in reverse and make sure," said David Theno, a food-safety expert hired to revamp Jack in the Box after the outbreak...

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