This afternoon, national food safety law firm Simon & Luke filed 5 salmonella claims against The Fort Restaurant in Morrison, Colorado.  The claims were filed on behalf of customers who consumed rattlesnake cakes at the restaurant during the week of July 10-16.  Each of the customers became violently ill after eating the exotic dish, and [...]

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has advised consumers not to eat eggs produced by Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms - both located in Iowa - because they may be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis, bacteria that may cause serious health problems.
The DSHS and local health departments are collaborating with the U.S. Centers [...]

The salmonella lawyers at Simon & Luke have collected another salmonella settlement - this time on behalf of a 12-year old boy who was hospitalized after consuming contaminated bread products purchased from Wal-Mart.
The settlement will pay for all past and future medical care for the child, along with a substantial amount of money for the [...]

The salmonella lawyers at national food safety law firm Simon & Luke have filed another salmonella claim against Subway.
The claim was filed today on behalf of Robert Hussey, a 19-year old college student who contracted Salmonella Hvittingfoss after eating a sandwich at the Subway restaurant located at 610 East Daniel in Champaign, Illinois in early [...]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Colorado public health officials have solved the mystery as to what was the source of a Colorado Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak in mid-July: contaminated eggs produced by Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms in Iowa.  All of the Colorado victims became ill after eating at The Fort Restaurant [...]

NBC does it again.  Super reporter Dave Scott of KXAN TV did another great piece on the salmonella egg recall that has sickened over 1500 nationwide.   He featured my client, Amanda Sanchez, of Austin, Texas, who has filed the first Texas salmonella egg lawsuit against Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms.  She was hospitalized for 4 days as [...]

The Colorado Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak that sickened 28 people in June has now been linked to the nationwide Salmonella egg recall that has claimed 1500 victims nationwide.
Rattlesnake Cakes (with bad eggs) are the source
In June, health officials noted a cluster of Salmonella Enteritidis illnesses 4 times greater than the normal expected case amounts.  An investigation [...]

Wisconsin state health officials have now linked a June salmonella outbreak that sickened 30 diners at the Baker Street Restaurant and Pub in Kenosha to the nationwide recall of 550 million eggs by Iowa egg producers Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms.  The Wisconsin salmonella cases bring the national total to over 1500.
An investigation into [...]

A North Carolina salmonella outbreak tied to Bullocks Bar B-Q in Durham, North Carolina that sickened 65 customers has now been linked to the national salmonella egg recall.
“We’re very confident the outbreak at Bullock’s caused by the commercial egg product can be traced back to eggs in this recall,” Megan Davies, North Carolina’s state epidemiologist, [...]

The CDC has just reported updated outbreak numbers for the Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak linked to contaminated eggs produced by Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms.
Salmonella Enteritidis Case Counts Rise Significantly

In early July 2010, CDC identified a nationwide sustained increase in the number of Salmonella Enteritidis cases uploaded to PulseNet, the national subtyping network made [...]