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 cases are products
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Separating the Chaff from the Wheat: How to determine the strength of a foodborne illness claim
“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 liability. In it,…
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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 King County Bar…
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Contaminated Fresh Produce and Product Liability: A Law-in-Action Perspective
“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 to the publisher, “[the…
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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 victims of foodborne…
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