The salmonella lawyers at the Houston-based food safety firm Simon & Luke continue to prosecute cases linked to last year’s Salmonella Enteritidis egg outbreak that sickened almost 2000 people nationwide thus far – making it the largest Salmonella outbreak in United States history.  If you were sickened with Salmonella after eating eggs, it is not [...]

I spent yesterday in Chicago arbitrating salmonella claims on behalf of 27 Simon & Luke clients.  The arbitration was defended by super lawyer Dean Panos of Jenner & Block, who represented Kellogg Company, and ACE Insurance Company.  The claims arose out of the 2008-2009 nationwide salmonella outbreak linked to contaminated peanut butter.   We had [...]

CDC Updates Salmonella Egg Illness Count – Now 1939 Victims Nationwide In July 2010, CDC identified a nationwide sustained increase in the number of Salmonella Enteritidis isolates with PFGE pattern JEGX01.0004.  From May 1 to November 30, 2010, a total of 3,578 illnesses were reported.  However, some cases from this period may not have been [...]

The salmonella lawyers at Simon & Luke continue to pursue claims on behalf of citizens who contracted salmonella after consuming eggs and egg products this year.  The illnesses have been linked to contaminated eggs produced by Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms.  Both are located in Iowa.  The CDC has released new data showing that [...]

The CDC has just released updated data on the Salmonella Enteriditis Egg Outbreak linked to contaminated eggs produced at Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms in Iowa. The victim count has now risen to 1813 nationwide. Between May 1 and October 15, 2010, 2010, a total of 3,182 illnesses of an identical In July 2010, [...]

This Friday, I will have the pleasure of distributing millions of dollars to victims – including the parents of several children – of the peanut butter Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak that sickened over 714 people in and killed 9 during 2008-2009. The contaminated peanut butter and peanut paste was manufactured by PCA at its peanut processing plants [...]

I’m back in Houston now, fresh from a day-long inspection of Wright County Egg Farm and its feed mill in Galt, Iowa.  Wright County Egg is one of two Iowa egg farms (the other is Hillandale Farms) linked to the national salmonella egg outbreak that has sickened over 1600 people since May of this year. [...]

Here is more video of my Hillandale Farms inspection – this one from CBS: Call Simon & Luke Ron Simon and Simon & Luke have represented over 2000 victims of food poisoning in the past three years alone, recovering over $400,000,000 for their clients.  They publish articles on food poisoning at www.myfoodpoisoninglawyer.com and are frequently [...]

The NBC affiliate in Iowa ran a video of my inspection of the Hillandale Farms egg plant in Iowa.  Hillandale has already been linked to a nationwide outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis that has sickened over 1600 victims nationwide. The contamination inside the plant was documented by federal investigators last month. Here is the link to [...]

An outbreak of salmonella has claimed 15 victims in three Oklahoma counties.  Investigators are now looking into the outbreak of a similar strain of salmonella identified in Iowa and Nebraska, said Laurence Burnsed, the Oklahoma Health Department’s communicable disease division director.  Only a couple of cases have been reported in those states to date. The [...]