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- Food Litigation
- Food Poisoning Lawyer
- How to Hire a Foodborne Illness Lawyer
- Ethics and Food Safety Lawyers
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- Six Million Dollar Settlement
- Fred Pritzker on Food Litigation (Blog)
- PFGE
- Botulism
- Campylobacter
- Clostridium Perfringens
- E.Coli Poisoning
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
- Hepatitis-A
- Listeria
- Norovirus
- Salmonella
- Shigella
- Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP)
- Food Recalls
- Food Poisoning Outbreaks
- Food Safety
- Food Safety Resources
- Food Lawyer
- Food Safety Law Blog
- Food Poisoning Law Blog
- E. coli Lawyer
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Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
Food Poisoning Lawyer and Attorney
“Since . . . first started handling these [foodborne illness] cases, Pritzker has become one of the country’s leading foodborne illness litigators and a self-taught expert on the bacteria and viruses that hide in food such as hamburgers, spinach salad and undercooked fish…”(Law & Politics, August/September 2008, No. 171).
Food safety attorney Fred Pritzker has appeared on CBS News, Fox News and local TV stations around the country. He has been quoted by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Lawyers USA, Law & Politics and other publications.
Food Poisoning Attorney Fred Pritzker
Attorney Fred Pritzker is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum; a Certified Civil Advocate (National Board of Trial Advocacy); and a Certified Trial Specialist (Minnesota State Bar Association). He has also been selected by other lawyers for inclusion in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Mr. Pritzker has also recovered millions of dollars for food poisoning victims, including:
- Over $3,000,000 for a pregnant woman who lost her unborn twins after contracting a foodborne illness
- $2,700,000 for the family of an 81-year-old man who died after contracting a foodborne illness
- A record recovery for a Minnesota Shigella victim
- Over $1,000,000 for a client who became ill from ground beef contaminated with E. coli
- Over $1,000,000 for a woman who ate meat contaminated with E. coli O157
- Over $1,000,000 for a client who became ill after eating deli meat contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
How a Food Poisoning Lawyer Proves a Food Poisoning Claim
Under our system of law, a person injured by food poisoning has to prove three things in order to make a successful claim:
- Fault - that the food seller or processor did something wrong with regard to food processing, preparation, storage or handling.
- Causation - the fault of the seller or processor caused the food to become contaminated and that the contaminated food actually caused the illness.
- Damages – the harms and losses suffered by the victim as a result of consuming the contaminated food
This involves a number of disciplines including medicine, microbiology, epidemiology, sanitation, food safety and agriculture among others. See my article on the subject entitled How Lawyers Evaluate and Prove Foodborne Illness Cases and my article regarding a recent court decision regarding what doesn't need to be proved to win a foodborne illness claim.
Food poisoning lawsuits are complex and science-based. Because Fred Pritzker has handled so many food poisoning cases, he has access to microbiologists and epidemiologists that may be needed as expert witnesses, and he has the legal and scientific knowledge necessary to understand and effectively utilize scientific evidence.
If you contact our law office regarding your food poisoning case, we may ask you questions that will determine if you have a lawsuit. We have questionnaires for the following:
- Botulism Lawsuit
- Campylobacter Lawsuit
- Clostridium Perfringens
- Cryptosporidium
- E. coli Lawsuit
- Hepatitis A Lawsuit
- Listeria Lawsuit
- Salmonella Lawsuit
- Shigella Lawsuit
- Vibrio Vulnificus
Food Attorney Fred Pritzker's Recent Tweets:
- Case count grows to 35 in #raw milk Campylobacter outbreak http://t.co/wzJvRMxN
- Institutional egg recall by Michael Foods has created a domino of recalls at food stores: http://t.co/OWKQGexz
- Foodborne illness outbreak linked to high school basketball game in South Dakota. http://t.co/2Kt8kArb
- Upcoming raw milk debate at Harvard. http://t.co/pTTxwf6k #foodsafety #rawmilk
- Family Cow raw milk outbreak grows to more than 30 cases: http://t.co/HVUCgMLs
- Maryland lab tests confirm Campylobacter in samples of raw milk, 23 now sick. http://t.co/keDFpYCd
- Hannaford Supermarket Ground Beef Outbreak Final Update: http://t.co/bRI3qGrh
- Campylobacter and raw milk, a dangerous pair. http://t.co/8EjNWpy1
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