An Introduction to Product Liability Law
In "An Introduction to Product Liability Law," I explain that when a person is injured by a defective product that is unreasonably dangerous or unsafe, the injured person may have...
For Lawyers
How to document a food poisoning case
In "How to document a food poisoning case," an article printed in the November, 2004 issue of Trial Magazine, Dave Babcock and I explain: As a general rule, food poisoning...
Separating the Chaff from the Wheat: How to determ
"Separating the Chaff from the Wheat: How to determine the strength of a foodborne illness claim," is a paper presented at the May 2005 Defense Research Institute meeting on food...
Tracing Mad Cow Makes Litigation Unlikely
Drew Falkenstein and I co-authored "Tracing Mad Cow Makes Litigation Unlikely," an article on litigation resulting from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) contamination for the March 2006 edition of the...
Contaminated Fresh Produce and Product Liability:
"Contaminated Fresh Produce and Product Liability: A Law-in-Action Perspective," appears in Microbial Safety of Fresh Produce: Challenges, Perspectives, and Strategies, an IFT Press publication to be released in 2009. According...
Class Action Foodborne-Illness Claims
"Class Action Foodborne-Illness Claims" focuses on the elements of a class action lawsuit, certification of a class, and gives reasoning to the decision behind bringing individual lawsuits on behalf of...
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Opinion & Contributed Articles
More or Less Food Safety Regulation?
During the past weeks, a few news stories have highlighted the distinctions between two different legislative approaches to address the issue of food safety. There is little question that the...
Foodborne Illness By The Numbers
Robert L. Scharff, with the help of funding from the Produce Safety Project at Georgetown University, recently published a study analyzing the financial impact of foodborne illness in the United...
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