Can I Sue for Salmonella?
Yes, you can sue for Salmonella poisoning if there is evidence connecting your illness to a food product or restaurant. In many cases, you can sue more than one company, which is important if you were severely sickened. Our lawyers have filed hundreds of lawsuits and won millions, including a landmark $6.5 million verdict.
If you or a loved one has been sickened by food tainted with Salmonella, contact the lawyers on our Salmonella food poisoning legal team at 1-888-377-8900 (text us at: 612-261-0856) or contact us online.
2026 Jalapeño Salmonella Claims
CDC and FDA have linked a multistate Salmonella Javiana outbreak to recalled fresh jalapeños served at Mexican-style restaurants, including Chipotle and QDOBA. Read our current jalapeño Salmonella outbreak report for case counts and recall information. If you tested positive after a relevant restaurant meal, follow our evidence-preservation and next-step guide.
Contact Our Lawyers about Your Salmonella Lawsuit
5 Reasons to File a Salmonella Lawsuit
Our Salmonella lawyers can help you hold food manufacturers and restaurants accountable for selling unsafe food. Below are 5 reasons to file a lawsuit.
- Get important information about what caused your illness. There is a lot of information you can’t get from the health department and companies without first filing a lawsuit. After one is filed, our lawyers can take legal steps to get that information. This is because there are laws written to help people who sue get evidence to help them prove the case. Call 1-888-377-8900 (toll-free) to contact our lawyers for a free lawsuit evaluation.
- Get paid before money runs out. Preserve your ability to recover compensation. Salmonella claims are time-sensitive. Evidence can disappear, businesses and insurers may contest responsibility, and filing deadlines vary by claim and jurisdiction. Prompt investigation can help preserve medical, purchase, laboratory, restaurant, and supply-chain records.
- Send a message that safety comes before profit. It is never okay to sell food contaminated with Salmonella bacteria. It is not only disgusting, it can make people really sick. One of our clients was a baby when he got sick. He developed meningitis and almost died. Several surgeries later, he was alive but had permanent brain damage. It is such a tragic case, and it should not have happened. The lawsuit is the only way this family is going to get any justice because CEOs and other corporate executives and managers almost never go to prison for selling food contaminated with dangerous pathogens. You were harmed by unsafe food, and your lawsuit is one way to let the company responsible know that it is not okay. We have clients who are food safety heroes. One couple is particularly dear. The husband, who almost died, has permanent brain damage that has affected his ability to work, walk and communicate. Although it is hard for him, he and his wife speak out at every opportunity about the need for better food safety laws. They have even spoken before Congress.
- Be a voice for better food safety laws. We often get calls from the news media asking us if we have a client who has filed a lawsuit and would like to be interviewed. This is one way to let the public know that food contaminated with Salmonella makes real people sick, people like you.
- Get a fair settlement faster. In some cases, we can get our clients a fair settlement (millions sometimes) without filing a lawsuit. In other cases, filing a lawsuit has been necessary to get our clients the money we believe they deserve. Getting the settlement quickly becomes important when there are huge medical bills because the person has developed complications like reactive arthritis, meningitis, colitis (when there is bloody diarrhea), and sepsis, which then carries the infection throughout the body (our Salmonella wrongful death cases generally involve sepsis). We have had clients with these complications who were hospitalized for weeks or months.
Questions a Salmonella Lawyer May Ask
A member of Pritzker Hageman’s Salmonella legal team may ask the following questions to evaluate the medical, outbreak, source, and damages evidence:
- When and where did you eat or purchase the suspected food?
- What exactly did you eat or drink, and what else did you consume during the week before symptoms began?
- When did symptoms begin, and what symptoms did you have?
- Did a healthcare provider order a stool culture, PCR panel, blood culture, or other test?
- Did the laboratory identify Salmonella, a serotype, or an outbreak code?
- Were you treated in an emergency department or admitted to a hospital?
- Did the infection spread beyond the intestines or cause bacteremia, sepsis, colitis, meningitis, reactive arthritis, or another complication?
- Did a health department contact you or tell you that your illness may be part of an outbreak?
- Do you have a receipt, app history, delivery record, payment statement, photograph, packaging, or leftovers?
- Who ate with you, and did anyone else become ill?
- What medical expenses, lost income, disability, or continuing symptoms resulted?
- Have a restaurant, food company, insurer, or investigator asked for a statement, release, or access to evidence?
Do not delay medical care to collect legal evidence, and do not guess when you do not know an answer. Accurate dates, records, and preserved communications are more useful than assumptions.
Pritzker Hageman represents clients in serious Salmonella cases nationwide. Lead trial lawyer Eric Hageman and the firm’s Salmonella legal team can evaluate the evidence and applicable deadline. Call 1-888-377-8900, text 612-261-0856, or request a free, confidential consultation. There is no attorney fee unless we recover compensation for you.
