Portillo’s Restaurant Salmonella Update Local and state health officials have now reported that the recent salmonella outbreak linked to Portillo’s Restaurant in St. Charles may have been caused by contaminated salad.  While no fatalities have yet been reported, at least three people have been hospitalized, or 20% of the fifteen cases positively linked to this outbreak. [...]

Portillo’s Restaurant Cooperating with Health Officials:  Will Remain Open While Investigation Continues According to the Kane County Chronicle, Portillo’s Restaurant is going out of its way to assure potential diners that its St. Charles location is safe.  This comes in the aftermath of reports earlier this week of at least 13 cases of Salmonella Typhimurium [...]

Portillo’s Restuarant Implicated in 10 Cases of a Rare Form of Salmonella  Although the outbreak strain is a rare one, 10 recent cases of an identical strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported to west suburban health officials in St. Charles, Illinois, over the past two weeks.  The outbreak caught the eye of local and [...]

Salmonella Typhimurium Escapes Laboratories – Nationwide Outbreak Claims 73 victims Employees of clinical and instructional microbiology laboratories, and students and those living in households of people who study or work in those labs, have become ill from exposure to a particular strain of Salmonella Typhimurium sold for commercial use in lab settings.  The Centers for Disease Control [...]

Fairly Tales Aside, CDC Officials Warn Against Kissing Frogs The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is working in concert with public health officials in nearly every state to investigate a truly national outbreak of human Salmonella Typhimurium infections.  The infections come from contact with water frogs, such as the common African dwarf frog that [...]

The food poisoning lawyers at Simon & Luke have settled 16 more claims on behalf of victims of the national Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak linked to contaminated peanut butter in Austin and Keebler crackers.  The crackers were manufactured by Kellogg Company, using contaminated peanut butter paste from now-bankrupt Peanut Corporation of America. The salmonella settlements included claims on [...]

The food poisoning lawyers at Simon & Luke have settled 12 more claims on behalf of victims of the national Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak linked to contaminated peanut butter in Austin and Keebler crackers.  The crackers were manufactured by Kellogg Company, using contaminated peanut butter paste from now-bankrupt Peanut Corporation of America. The salmonella settlements included claims on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Press Release – Virginia Court Approves $12,000,000 Settlement of Salmonella Peanut Butter claims Virginia Federal Judge Norman Moon today approved the settlement and distribution of $12,000,000 to 122 victims of a nationwide salmonella peanut butter outbreak.  Each of the victims had contracted salmonella poisoning in 2008-2009 after consuming products containing peanut paste manufactured by Peanut [...]