January 17, 2020
A former manager of a McDonald’s in Maple Grove, MN was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping a 14-year-old employee. Andrew Otero Albertorio (25) pleaded guilty in November to one of five counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct…
December 4, 2019
The romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak has grown to include 102 illnesses in 23 states. Fifty-eight people have been hospitalized, 10 of them with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) a form of kidney failure that is a complication of some E.…
October 7, 2019
Pritzker Hageman Listeria lawyers are representing a client who is hospitalized with a Listeria infection after eating chicken salad that is now part of a Listeria recall. Craig Moraski, 50, of Bellevue, Nebraska developed symptoms of a Listeria infection after…
October 4, 2019
Hot tubs on display at the North Carolina Mountain State Fair may be the source of a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that has sickened 128 people, killing one of them, according to state health officials. The total number of illnesses reported…
August 19, 2019
A Cyclospora outbreak linked to basil imported from Mexico has sickened 205 people who ate contaminated food in NY, FL, MN, OH and WI, according to the latest update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Since the…
August 12, 2019
A chain-reaction crash caused by a dump truck injured 10 people on I-94 in southeastern Wisconsin. The crash happened on Saturday, August 10th in the southbound lanes of I-94, just south of 7 Mile Road. A fully-loaded dump truck crashed…
October 19, 2016
Eight years ago, a lightning strike at a natural gas facility in Eight Mile, AL, ruptured a mercaptan storage tank. Over the next six months, an estimated 500 gallons of the chemical, used as an odorant added to natural gas…
October 14, 2016
Sarah Pritzker, daughter of Fred and Renee Pritzker, was featured in an article on the U of M Carlson School of Management website, “Creating a Karmic Product“: “Self-proclaimed wanderlust Sarah Pritzker, ’16 MBA, spent her post-college years as a bike tour…
July 7, 2016
On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer. He was a cafeteria supervisor at J.J. Hill Montessori School in St. Paul. He was only 32 years old. In a live-stream video taken by Mr.…
July 7, 2016
Attorney Eric Hageman represented Luis Garcia in an excessive-force lawsuit against the City of Minneapolis and former Minneapolis police officer Blayne Lehner. Mr. Garcia, who was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by the police, was handcuffed and detained without…
April 25, 2016
Our law firm is investigating this Elizabethkingia outbreak in Wisconsin. The Illinois Department of Public Health has announced that a new cluster of Elizabethkingia anophelis has sickened at least 10 Illinois residents, killing 6. Concerned by the widespread, continuing outbreak…
April 6, 2016
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are keeping close tabs on a disturbing multistate outbreak of Elizabethkingia anophelis, an emerging infectious disease that has sickened 59 people, killing 18, in southeast and southern Wisconsin since November 2015. This little-known illness…