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PritzkerOlsen, P.A.
Plaza VII, Suite 2950
45 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402-1652

Telephone: 612-338-0202
Toll-Free: 1-888-377-8900
Fax: 612-338-0104
Email:info@pritzkerlaw.com

Pritzker Olsen Attorneys

Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers

Our Minnesota injury lawyers have decades of experience and a national reputation for excellence in the areas of personal injury and wrongful death. Our attorneys have been interviewed by CNN, CBS News, Fox News, Associated Press, KARE-TV, KSTP-TV, WCCO-TV and others.

Attorneys Fred Pritzker, Elliot Olsen, and Eric Hageman were named Minnesota "Super Lawyers" by Law & Politics magazine (Aug. 2009). In addition, Fred Pritzker has been named a "Top 40 Personal Injury Super Lawyer" and a "Top 100 Super Lawyer" in MN by Law & Politics magazine. Minnesota injury lawyer Fred Pritzker has also been selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

Accident and Personal Injury News

Strain Tours Lawsuit

According to the Minnesota State Patrol, a tour bus rolled over on I-90 near Austin, Minnesota. The tour bus was headed eastbound on I-90 when it crossed into the westbound lanes and rolled over. The bus rollover accident killed two and seriously injured several others.

Semi-Truck Crash Settlement

Pritzker Olsen attorneys Fred Pritzker and Eric Hageman recently obtained a hard fought $2,560,000 recovery for a couple who were seriously injured in a semi-truck crash.

Stork Craft Crib Recall and Fisher-Price Crib Recall

Prompted by four deaths and a number of serious injuries, Stork Craft has announced a Stork Craft and Fisher-Price crib recall that involves about 147,000 Stork Craft drop-side cribs with the Fisher-Price logo and almost 2 million cribs sold under the Stork Craft label. These cribs were sold in the United States and Canada. Contact us if you would like a free consultation regarding a Stork Craft lawsuit and a Fisher-Price lawsuit.

Bayer Lawsuit

Lawsuits have been filed against Bayer HealthCare alleging serious injury from Yaz and Yasmin, birth control products. Read about a Yaz lawsuit and a Yasmin lawsuit.

Amputation Malpractice

The amount of compensation in an amputation malpractice case depends on the facts of the case, including the age, occupation and lifestyle of the amputation victim. An amputation lawyer at Pritzker Olsen can discuss an amputation lawsuit with you in more detail.

CBS Yamaha Rhino Story

We are representing Yamaha Rhino rollover victims. CBS News reported on injuries and deaths associated with Yamaha Rhino ATVs.

Synthes Synex Lawsuit

A Synthes Ti Synex II VBR recall was prompted by the six adverse events. In each of these cases, the patient suffered injury when the Ti Synex VBR lost height. After reviewing the facts of these cases, the FDA announced that it had classified the recall of Synthes Ti Synex II VBR products as Class I.

Synthes Synex II Recall

Synthes USA recalled Ti Synex II components on September 14, 2009, after six adverse event reports. On November 12, the Food and Drug Administration ...

Dexferrum Lawsuit

According to the FDA, some patients have died after the administration of Dexferrum, an iron dextran injection ...

CBS Reports on Rhino Rollover Deaths

The head of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says her agency is continuing to investigate ...

Mack Truck Accident Lawyer

Our experience has been that most Mack truck accidents involve rear-end collisions, head-on collisions and turning into a pedestrian, bicycle, motorcycle or car.

E. coli Lawsuits and the CDC

For E. coli lawsuit purposes, it is valuable to have the CDC determine that a person with an E. coli infection is part of a foodborne outbreak. Read E. coli lawsuit information and Providence, Rhode Island E. coli Lawyer information.

Bus Driver Who Allegedly Hit Teenager While Driving Drunk is Arrested

A former Billings, Mont., bus driver was arrested Wednesday in Washington state and is accused of hitting a teenager in a crosswalk while driving drun ...

Truck School Bus Collision Injures Children

A collision between a truck and a school bus carrying 39 children in Ruskin, Florida, resulted in 10 children taken to the hospital with minor injurie ...

Burlington Northern Train Collision Lawsuit

Burlington Northern Train-Car Collision Lawsuit Update: Burlington Northern was ...

Amputation Lawsuit

Our law firm represents amputees in legal actions against manufacturers, negligent drivers, hospitals, construction companies and others. For more information, please see the following: Amputation Compensation, Amputation Lawyer, Amputation Pain, Construction Accident Amputation, Workplace Amputation.

Zicam Lawsuit

Since the introduction of Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Gel to the market in 1999, FDA has received more than 130 reports of anosmia associated with the use of Zicam zinc-containing intranasal products. Read Zicam smell loss lawsuit information. Several class action lawsuits have been filed. Read Zicam class action lawsuit information. In response to a warning letter from the FDA, Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. recalled certain Zicam products. Read about the Zicam recall and Zicam lawyers. More information: Matrixx Initiatives Lawsuit, Matrixx Initiatives Class Action Lawsuit, Matrix Initiatives FDA, Zicam FDA, Recall Zicam.

Pharmacy Malpractice - Wrong Prescription

We represent people who were given the wrong prescription by a pharmacy. These cases involve the pharmacy giving the patient a different medication than the one prescribed or a different dose than that prescribed.

Yamaha Rhino Rollover

Lawyers USA interviewed attorney Fred Pritzker for an article entitiled "Lawsuits claim Yamaha Rhino ATV unsafe." NBC affiliate KSBY interviewed attorney Fred Pritzker for a story about a girl who died in a Yamaha Rhino accident. Read Yamaha Rhino lawsuit information. We also have a Yamaha Rhino lawsuit website.

Minnesota Car Accident Lawyer

Attorneys Fred Pritzker and Elliot Olsen are certified trial specialists and, once again, have been named "Super Lawyers" by Law & Politics based on a pole of other Minnesota lawyers. Our Minnesota injury lawyers regularly speak at legal seminars on effective trial practice, traumatic brain injury, pain and suffering and other personal injury issues.

Fleet Lawsuit Involving Acute Phosphate Nephropathy

Our law firm is representing a number of clients who have suffered Fleet renal failure (Fleet Phospho-soda kidney failure) after the use of certain Fleet phospo-soda products. C.B. Fleet Company has recently announced a Fleet Phospho-soda recall involving their over-the-counter products Fleet® Phospho-soda® and Fleet® Phospho-soda® EZ-Prep® Bowel Cleansing System. Read more: Fleet recall, Fleet kidney failure, Fleet laxative lawsuit, Fleet Phospho-soda lawsuit, Fleet lawsuit lawyer.

Related to the Fleet lawsuits are cases involving Visicol kidney failure or OsmoPrep. Read about a Visicol lawsuit, an OsmoPrep lawsuit, a Visicol malpractice lawsuit and an OsmoPrep malpractice lawsuit.

Truck Accident Lawyer

Fred Pritzker has obtained another large recovery in a truck accident case. Contact Fred for more information. For truck accident information, please see Truck-Car Accident: Passenger, Semi Accident Lawyer, 18-Wheeler Accident Lawyer and Tractor-Trailer Accident Attorney. We represent injured people including Rochester, MN. If you need an accident lawyer in Rochester, MN, please contact our law firm.

NuvaRing Death

Lawsuits have been filed alleging death and serious injury associated with NuvaRing, a contraceptive product make by Organon USA, Inc. Contact us about NuvaRing stroke, NuvaRing pulmonary embolism, NuvaRing heart attack, and an Organon NuvaRing lawsuit.

Walgreens Prescription Error and Walgreens Lawsuit

Claims against the pharmacy chain have included allegations that the pharmacy distributed the wrong drug, gave instructions for the wrong dose, and mislabeled. Read about a prescription error attorney and pharmacist malpractice.

CVS Pharmacy Lawsuit

Pharmacies and pharmacists owe patients a duty of care. When that duty is breached and that breach causes harm to the patient, a pharmacy is liable for damages, meaning the pharmacy and pharmacist have to compensate the patient and/or the patient’s family for the resulting injuries or death.

Garbage Truck Accident Lawyer

Our law firm has successfully recovered compensation for victims of garbage truck accidents and their families.

E. coli

We have launched a new E. coli website. The site provides information on how E. coli O157:H7 affects the human body, the complications of an E. coli infection, E. coli outbreaks, E. coli recalls and E. coli research. Read about Ohio E. coli compensation.

Minnesota Lawyer

We have launched a new Minnesota Lawyer website. The site provides information on Minnesota personal injury topics.

Foodborne Outbreaks

National Food Safety Lawyers

Our law firm has a national reputation in the area of food safety litigation and represents victims of foodborne outbreaks throughout the United States. We are investigating the outbreaks below.

Petting Zoo Llama E. coli HUS

Our law firm has been retained to represent a 3-year-old child who contracted an E. coli infection after visiting an apple orchard/petting zoo in Minnesota. The child developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).

Fairbank Farms Beef Recall Lawsuit

Recalled Fairbank Farms ground beef products have been linked to a multi-state E. coli outbreak in California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont. Three people developed HUS E. coli O157:H7.

Lincoln Middle School E. coli

Students from Lincoln Middle School in Lincoln, Rhode Island, have tested positive for E. Coli 0157. The E. coli infections have been linked to hamburgers served by Camp Bournedale in Mass. In response to this outbreak, there has been a South Shore Meat Company recall of over 1000 pounds of beef products.

Cedar Groves Baptist Church Salmonella

Several People who purchased a meal at a fundraiser in Conway, South Carolina, on Nov. 13, 2009, have been sickened with gastroentestinal illness consistent with Salmonella poisoning (salmonellosis). At least 5 people were hospitalized.

Michigan Alfalfa Sprout Salmonella Outbreak

Michigan has 12 confirmed Salmonella Typhimurium cases linked to alfalfa sprouts. Michigan residents are warned not to eat raw alfalfa sprouts until further notice.

Lettuce Salmonella Outbreak

Shredded lettuce has been associated with 124 cases of Salmonella. The Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak started in July of 2009 and peaked in August of 2009.

Nestle Lawsuit

We are representing victims of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened people in 31 states has been linked to Nestle Toll House cookie dough. Some of those sickened developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Read Toll House lawsuit and Toll House recall information.

Memphis, Tennessee Salmonella Outbreak

We are representing victims of a Salmonella outbreak in Memphis, Tennessee that is associated with A&R Bar-B-Q (also referred to as A & R Barbeque). Some of the victims attended the 2009 Harston Family Reunion. Read about the A & R Bar-B-Q lawsuit.

JBS Swift Beef Recall

A multistate E. coli outbreak has been linked to JBS Swift Beef Company beef products. JBS Swift has recalled over 400,000 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. More information: CDC report on the JBS Swift E. coli outbreak and JBS Swift Beef Company lawsuit.

Safeway Lawsuit and Recall

A multi-state outbreak of a drug-resistant strain of Salmonella Newport has been associated with ground beef processed by Beef Packers, Inc., and sold by Safeway stores. At least 15 people sickened in Colorado purchased the meat at Safeway. The recalled meat was also sold at Vons, which is owned by Safeway.

Raw Milk Campylobacter Outbreak in WI

Wisconsin public health officials have linked thirteen confirmed cases of Camplyobacter jejuni in southeastern Wisconsin to the consumption of raw milk. The onset of illness was Aug. 14-20, 2009.

Cargill Recall - Beef Packers, Inc. Beef

The multi-state outbreak of a drug-resistant strain of Salmonella Newport that has been associated with ground beef processed by Beef Packers, Inc., also involves Cargill, the owner of Beef Packers. Read about the Cargill connection and a Cargill lawsuit. Safeway, Vons and Sam's Club are also involved in this outbreak.

Kroger Recall

In connection with the JBS Swift recall above, Kroger has recalled ground beef sold at Kroger stores, Fry's Food and Drug stores, Smith's Food and Drug stores and Food 4 Less stores. Read about a possible Kroger lawsuit.

McDonald's Hepatitis A Lawsuit

At least 11 people who ate at the Milan, Illinois McDonalds have been diagnosed with hepatitis A. Health officials suspect that the outbreak was caused by a sick employee. A simple $50 shot could have prevented the outbreak.

Valley Meats Recall and Lawsuit

Several people in Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania have contracted E. coli poisoning after consuming ground beef processed by Valley Meats LLC. One girl has died in Cleveland, Ohio. Read more about the Ohio E. coli outbreak, Illinois E. coli outbreak, and Pennsylvania E. coli outbreak.

Alfalfa Sprouts Listeria

The CDC, FDA and public health officials have determined that a multistate Listeria outbreak is linked to eating raw alfalfa sprouts. We are investigating this listeriosis outbreak.

Alfalfa Sprouts Salmonella

The CDC and FDA are advising consumers not to eat raw alfalfa sprouts because they may be contaminated with Salmonella Saintpaul. State and local authorities, CDC, and FDA have linked a multistate outbreak to eating alfalfa sprouts.

Cruise Ship Salmonella Oranienburg

We are representing a 55-year-old Minnesota man who became sick on a cruise ship in the Caribbean and almost died from a rare form of Salmonella. At least one other Minnesotan was sickened on the cruise ship. Salmonella cases in other states may also be part of this outbreak.

Salmonella Linked to Union International Food Co, Lian How White Pepper and Uncle Chen Pepper

A Salmonella outbreak linked to a spice company and Uncle Chen white pepper has sickened 42 people, including 33 in California. Union International Food Co., has recalled products.

Apple Valley, MN Campylobacter Outbreak

A Minnesota Campylobacter outbreak may be asociated with an Apple Valley restaurant. We are representing a woman who was hospitalized in this outbreak. We are accepting other cases.

Western National Stock Show in Denver Associated with Colorado E. coli Outbreak

A Colorado E. coli outbreak has seriously sickened at least 20 people, most of them children. Health officials suspect that the outbreak is connected to the Western National Stock Show held in Denver in January.

Sprouts Salmonella Outbreak

A Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak associated with SunSprout Enterprises Sprouts has sickened people in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota and Missouri. We are representing victims of this outbreak.

Salmonella Wrongful Death Lawsuit: Pritzker Law Firm Represents Family

Shirley Mae Almer of Minnesota was the first reported death in the Salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter. Fred Pritzker has filed a lawsuit on behalf of her heirs. We are representing the heirs of three of the people who died in this outbreak.