Salmonella headline roundup - Wal-Mart gets sued

Why not a salmonella headline roundup? Let's have another go with Google and see what is being written about this never-ending story....

Jalapenos at Valley Bashas' test positive for salmonella

Bill Marler finds someone to sue in salmonella outbreak From the story:

This morning, Marler, joined by David Woodruff, a Colorado attorney, made his first move, filing a lawsuit against Wal-Mart and a John Doe jalapeño supplier on behalf of Brian Grubbs, a resident of Dolores, Colorado. The salmonella suit, which makes claims for, among other things, strict product liability, negligence and negligence per se, was filed in Colorado’s aptly-named Montezuma County court.

First salmonella lawsuit filed From the story:

"Mr. Grubbs became sick after eating jalapenos purchased from Wal-Mart," says Marler, "and it was the only thing he ate different from his wife." Fortunately, Mrs. Grubbs had the wherewithal to contact the local health department and insisted on getting the peppers tested. "She really pestered them to get the test done and now it has become a crucial piece of evidence," says Marler.

Marler explains that health departments are inundated with requests to test food and most of the time those requests are unfounded, mainly because people think the food that sickened them was the last food they ate. In this case, Marler says they got lucky: The Grubbs family still had some of the jalapenos that sickened Mr. Grubbs.


TK: Mr. Grubbs and the "smoking gun" pepper. One would assume Wal-Mart will fight this lawsuit with vigor. Here is a somewhat dated Marler Clark powerpoint...