Restaurant E. coli lawsuits have been filed in several states affected by the romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak including Arizona where two of the nine people sickened in that state have decided to sue Red Lobster.
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The two plaintiffs are both women who ate Caesar salads on separate visits to the same Red Lobster restaurant in Peoria, AZ during late-March. Within a few days of their meals, the women developed symptoms of an E. coli infection including abdominal cramps and diarrhea which became so debilitating that they were hospitalized for several days.
The women are among the 197 people in 35 states who have been sickened in this outbreak including 26 people who developed a form of kidney failure associated with E. coli infections called hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Eighty-nine people have been hospitalized and five people have died.
The E. coli attorneys at Pritzker Hageman, who recently won a $7.5 million verdict on behalf of a young client who suffered kidney failure and obtained a $4.5 settlement on behalf of a teenager who ate contaminated food at a restaurant, are representing clients in this outbreak.
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The case count by state, accoring the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is as follows: Alaska (8), Arkansas (1), Arizona (9), California (45), Colorado (3), Connecticut (2), Florida (1), Georgia (5), Idaho (11), Illinois (2), Iowa (1), Kentucky (1), Louisiana (1), Massachusetts (4), Michigan (5), Minnesota (12), Mississippi (1), Missouri (1), Montana (9), Nebraska (1), New Jersey (8), New York (10), North Carolina (1), North Dakota (3), Ohio (7), Oklahoma (1), Oregon (1), Pennsylvania (24), South Dakota (1), Tennessee (3), Texas (3), Utah (1), Virginia (1), Washington (7) and Wisconsin (3).
Tthe U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has identified romaine lettuce grown in Yuma, AZ as the source of this outbreak, but has not been able to pinpoint a specific source saying “the outbreak cannot be explained by a single grower, harvester, processor, or distributor.”
