Hepatitis A Legal Cases
Boston: Quizno's Hepatitis A Litigation
Marler Clark, the Seattle food safety attorneys, filed a class action lawsuit against Quizno's Friday on behalf of all individuals who received Immune globulin (Ig) injections after being exposed to the hepatitis A virus at the Quizno's Sub shop located at 74 Summer Street in Boston. The lawsuit, the second class action lawsuit the firm has filed in two weeks on behalf of individuals who received Ig shots, was filed in Suffolk County Superior Court.
Massachusetts: Friendly's Hepatitis A Litigation
Marler Clark has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of hundreds of customers and employees of a Boston-area restaurant who were exposed to the dangerous hepatitis A virus in June, 2004.
Health officials estimate that more than 3,800 people were at risk after dining at Friendly's Restaurant in Arlington, west of Boston. In mid-June, more than 3,000 of those people lined up at an area clinic to receive immune globulin ("lg") shots. Many were initially turned away and had to return later.
Hepatitis A is spread as a result of fecal contamination, often by food handlers. Officials sounded the alarm after a food handler at Friendly's was diagnosed with hepatitis A.
Pennsylvania: Chi Chi's Hepatitis A Outbreak
In November, 2003, at least 660 people were sickened, and four died from Hepatitis A contracted from Mexican-grown green onions served at the Beaver Valley Mall Chi-Chi's Restaurant near Pittsburg. The outbreak, linked to similar outbreaks in Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina, is considered the largest single-source epidemic of Hepatitis A in U.S. history.
Marler Clark represents many of the approximately 300 victims who are seeking compensation from Chi-Chi's and four companies that supplied the green onions. The Food and Drug Administration attributed the outbreak to poor sanitation that allowed the Hepatitis A move from Mexican fields to the salsa and condiment tables at Chi-Chi's.
Chi-Chi's, a chain of about 100 restaurants was already in bankruptcy before the outbreak, but claims have been paid by its insurance carrier. About 76 of the restaurants were recently bought by Outback Steakhouses Inc, which plans to convert them to its own brands.
Washington: Subway Hepatitis A Litigation
Marler Clark, the Seattle law firm nationally-known for its successful representation of persons injured in food-borne illness outbreaks today announced that it had obtained a $1.06 million settlement on behalf of 29 persons who claim to have been infected with the Hepatitis A virus as a result of eating contaminated food at two local Subway Sandwich franchises.
Washington: McDonald's hepatitis A Litigation
Marler Clark represents two people sickened with hepatitis A after eating at a Mount Vernon McDonald's restaurant in February 1999.
Health officials reported nine cases of hepatitis A and traced them to the McDonald's, where an assistant manager continued to work after contracting the disease.
Massachusetts: D'Angelo's Hepatitis A litigation
Marler Clark suit against D'Angelo Sandwich Shops Inc. their client, Rosemary Lamarre of Fall River, contracted hepatitis A from eating at its Route 6, Swansea location. She was one of more than 30 people sickened during the recent hepatitis outbreak -- made the complaint against D'Angelo after becoming "violently ill" in late November. Her husband, Robert, is also listed as a plaintiff.
Spokane, Washington: Carl's Jr. Hepatitis A Litigation
The Seattle-based law firm Marler Clark filed a class-action lawsuit in March against Carl's Jr. Carl's Jr. agreed Tuesday to pay four Spokane-area families settlements ranging from $25,000 to $75,000 because members of those families contracted hepatitis A at a local franchise. Attorney Bill Marler said the terms of the settlement prevent him from divulging the names of those who contracted the virus. Carl's Jr. officials also agreed to pay for hepatitis A immune globulin shots for some 1,400 people who ate at the restaurant, in addition to compensating them $200 each. Those people ate at the restaurant near the time it was discovered an employee there had the virus but did not contract the disease.
