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Pars Cove Lawsuit Press Release:
Rich Ruohonen Files Lawsuit on Behalf of 10 Victims of the Salmonella Outbreak Linked to the Pars Cove Persian Cuisine Booth at the 2007 Taste of Chicago
Minneapolis (Business Wire) July 3, 2008 – Pritzker | Ruohonen, a national food safety law firm, and David J. Fitzpatrick & Associates, LTD., a Chicago law firm, filed a lawsuit today on behalf of ten people who became ill after eating at the Pars Cove Persian Cuisine booth at the Taste of Chicago held in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois. Plaintiffs consumed food at the Pars Cove Persian Cuisine booth during or around June 29 through July 2, 2007. The lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. The defendant in this case is Iran Echo International Corp., d/b/a Pars Cove East.
According to the complaint, all ten plaintiffs had Salmonella Heidelberg infections linked to hummus served at the Pars Cove Persian Cuisine booth at the Taste of Chicago. Subsequent to consuming the Pars Cove hummus, the plaintiffs fell seriously ill with gastrointestinal complaints including but not limited to nausea, abdominal cramps, headaches, diarrhea and other indicators of Salmonella poisoning.
According to the final report on this Salmonella outbreak, there were 191 laboratory-confirmed cases of Salmonella Heidelberg associated with eating at the 2007 Taste of Chicago. Health officials found the outbreak strain of Salmonella Heidelberg in patient specimens, Pars Cove hummus specimens and food worker specimens. Salmonella isolates in two separate samples of Pars Cove hummus matched the outbreak PFGE patterns.
“It has been a year since these people were sickened and injured by this restaurant, and Pars Cove still refuses to take responsibility for what happened,” stated lead attorney Rich Ruohonen. “We had no choice but to file this lawsuit to make Pars Cove take responsibility.”
Pritzker | Ruohonen & Associates, P.A. has been involved in most of the major foodborne illness outbreak involving Salmonella and other dangerous pathogens and has collected millions on behalf of foodborne illness survivors and the families of people killed by foodborne illness.
For additional information, please contact attorney Rich Ruohonen toll-free at 1-888-377-8900, via email at rar@pritzkerlaw.com or on the web at www.pritzkerlaw.com.
Our law firm has a national reputation in the area of food poisoning litigation, and lawyers in the firm have been interviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other publications. Contact us regarding our recently-settled Salmonella case.
If you were sickened at the 2007 Taste of Chicago, please contact us regarding our Pars Cove Lawsuit:
- Call 1-888-377-8900 (toll-free)
- Email our law firm
- Submit our Pars Cove lawsuit consultation form
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