Two dozen people sickened by the biggest E. coli outbreak in state history filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Lane County Fair Board, claiming the board didn’t do enough to protect fairgoers given similar outbreaks in other states. Eighty-two people became sick at the fair — nearly two-thirds of them younger than age 6. Twelve […]
The family of one of the teens that contracted E. coli poisoning at a Washington camp last summer has sued Spokane Produce Inc. County health officials implicated the firm’s romaine lettuce as the possible source of infection. But Spokane Produce says the lawsuit hinges on a flawed investigation by local health officials and that the […]
In the wake of the now infamous ConAgra ground beef recall that sickened scores of Americans coast to coast, I called upon anyone who would listen in my op-ed piece for the Denver Post to put me out of business – please. I said: “For this trial lawyer, E. coli has been a far too […]