Personal Injury Law

Food Poison Blog Takes on New Name
As readers of this blog know, a number of new authors have recently joined our contributor list.   With all the new posts, Food Poison Blog began to look less like a blog, and more like a journal of news and notes on Food Poisoning...

Common Misspellings of Food Poison - food poision, food poison, food poisin, food poisons, food poisen
The CDC estimates that 76 million foodborne illness, or food poisoning, cases occur in the United States every year, which means that one in four Americans contracts a foodborne illness annually after eating foods contaminated with such pathogens as E...

Delaware Weighs in on Poison Puts
The credit crisis has brought the issue of the poison put to fore. A "poison put" is a change of control provision in an indenture that prevents a debtor from having its board replaced as a consequence of a hostile...

China Takes Food Poisoning Too Seriously
Authorities in China say two men have been sentenced to death in a food-poisoning case that killed two diners and sickened 61 others in Shenzhen City.  Ke Bizhi and Wang Ying were convicted of adding poison to food at a snack bar last February, Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, reported Monday...

Litigation Over a Triggered Poison Pill: Selectica
When a poison pill threatens potential acquirers, the acquiring company usually files suit to have the pill declared invalid -- before the the acquisition. In an unusual case, a group of purchasers triggered a poison pill intentionally, the target company,...

Triggering a Poison Pill
(Editor’s Note: This post is based on a client memo by Mark Gerstein, Bradley Faris, Joseph Kronsnoble and Christopher Drewry of Latham & Watkins LLP.) Stockholder rights plans, commonly referred to as ?poison pills,? were developed more than 25 years ago to fend off opportunistic “hostile” offers and other abusive takeover transactions...

Pet Food Recall and Deaths
Dogs and Cats Sickened by Tainted Menu Food Products

Pet Food Recall
Diamond Pet Food sets up $3.1 million class action fund for substandard dog food.

Food/Supplements
involving food poisoning, food product recalls, false advertising or labeling, vitamin, weight loss and diet supplement issues.

PETCO
Animal Food Distribution Unsanitary, Food Seized

Menu Food
$240,000 settlement reached in Hawaii class action contaminated pet food suit.

Food Dyes Linked to Behavioral Problems
Ban Urged

Mars Petcare
Recalls Dry Pet Food Manufactured at Everson PA Plant