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  • Rules Regarding Donning and Doffing Not Always Clear-Cut
    Sep-17-16 Dallas, TX: One of the more confusing aspects of labor law involves rules around donning and doffing or egress and regress . That's because there's a fine line that determines when a person should be paid for time spent putting on or taking off special work clothes or logging into and out of computer systems for work, and the line is not always clear. E...
  • Two Confirmed Dead in ConAgra Food Plant Explosion
    Jun-10-09 Garner, NC Two people have been confirmed dead and a third person is missing after a massive explosion at a ConAgra food plant yesterday morning. According to officials quoted on CNN.com four people were in critical condition after the 11:30am EST explosion at the ConAgra Foods facility at Garner, North Carolina just south of Raleigh. The most seriously...
  • Preventing Foodborne Illness this Barbeque Season
    Jun-8-09 Madison, WI: Who doesn't love a barbeque? It's one of America's favorite summer pastimes, but all too often we hear reports of people getting sick from eating contaminated food. Last month, President Barack Obama pledged to revamp protection of the nation's food supply to help prevent future disease outbreaks: Numerous outbreaks of foodborne illness have...
  • Reports of Foodborne Illness Often Mistaken as "Flu"
    May-19-09 Sherman Oaks, CA Sarah and her son had dinner at a local Mexican restaurant; two days later they both became violently sick but at first thought it was the flu. "When I phoned the health department, they told me that all too often, people don't report food poisoning ," says Sara. "But when two people become ill from eating basically the same food at the s...
  • Salmonella Spice Recall Expanded to Additional Products
    Apr-20-09 Union International Food Co. is further expanding the salmonella spice recall of Lian How and Uncle Chen brand retail and institutional products. The recall now includes various size packages of all Uncle Chen and Lian How sauces, oils, and oil blends because the products may be contaminated with salmonella. The products included in this expanded reca...
  • Adopted Children from China Exposed to Melamine in Milk?
    Jan-6-09 Los Angeles, CA When the world first learned of melamine contamination in Chinese milk products , the initial reaction was an instant flashback to melamine in pet food, and other China-sourced products that have been found to be contaminated. "Those poor babies over there," you may have caught yourself saying. "At least it's not happening here in the US."...
  • Maple Leaf Foods Class Action Lawsuit: Interview with Attorney Darren Williams
    Sep-2-08 Victoria, BC On August 25, 2008 Merchant Law Group LLP filed the first class action lawsuits in Canada on behalf of listeriosis victims and recalled meat purchasers. "Since the action was filed we have had about 3,400 expressions of interest from people concerned," says attorney Darren Williams, "from Victoria, British Columbia to St. John's Newfoundland...
  • There could be E. coli in your Hamburger: Topps Recall
    Sep-29-07 Elizabeth, NJ Hamburgers possibly contaminated with E. coli have sickened eight people in eight states, and has resulted in a recall of frozen hamburger , according to a release by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) in Atlanta. On Tuesday the Topps Meat Company, based here, recalled 331,582 pounds of frozen beef patties as well as...
  • Peanut Butter Recall: Mystery Solved
    Apr-10-07 Seattle, WA: The mystery has been solved in the recalled peanut butter salmonella story - and the culprits have turned out to be dormant bacteria already at the ConAgra plant, activated last August by water leaks in the building. In February 2007, ConAgra Inc. recalled peanut butter products in its Great Value and Peter Pan brands made since 2006. T...
  • Spinach E. coli: Warnings Unnoticed for Two Days
    Dec-4-06 Salinas, CA: Concerns are now being raised that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did not warn consumers quickly enough about the recent E. coli spinach contamination that killed at least three people and made 200 more sick. Some critics believe that the deaths from the E. coli infection could have been prevented if the CDC had lear...
  • Viacom & Kellogg to be Sued for Marketing Junk Food
    Jan-19-06 Parents and advocates are suing Viacom (one of the largest entertainment companies in the world) and Kellogg, to prevent them from marketing junk food to young children. The plaintiffs allege that these two companies knowingly and directly harm children's health by marketing mainly food products high in sugar, saturated and trans fat, or salt, and mainly...
  • Whole Foods recalls Trout
    Jan-11-06 Whole Foods Market® is recalling Whole Catch Lemon Pepper Garlic Hot Smoked Trout. The [ FDA ] is warning consumers that it might be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail and/or elderly people. Short term symptoms in healthy people include: • high fever ...
  • Amerigroup Settles with Medicaid for $225 Million
    Amerigroup Settles with Medicaid for $225 Million Amerigroup has agreed to pay $225 million to settle allegations by federal and Illinois state authorities that Amerigroup's health plans denied coverage to pregnant women and people with health ailments in the Illinois Medicaid program. A whistle-blower lawsuit was filed in 2002 by former vice pre...
  • Honeywell to pay $12 million settlement in wrongful death lawsuit.
    Baton Rouge, LA: (Mar-17-08) A federal lawsuit was brought against Chemical & Metals Industries Inc. (C&MI), a Colorado company, alleging that it shipped hazardous materials in a mislabeled container that contributed to the death of Delvin Henry, a 32-year-old employee of Honeywell International of Baton Rouge, LA. The suit claimed that C&MI was liable o...
  • Zantac Medication Cancer Legal News & Lawsuit Information
    Zantac (ranitidine hydrochloride) is being investigated after 150 Zantac tablets were found to contain a carcinogenic chemical up to 3,000 times greater than the FDA’s daily intake limit. The chemical found in the popular heartburn drug is N-nitrosodimethylamine (“NDMA”). Numerous studies have shown a link between the NDMA in Zantac and can...
  • George's Processing Inc. Employee Donning and Doffing Settlement
    The Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against the poultry processor for allegedly not compensating workers for time spent getting into and out of work clothes. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of current and former employees of George's Cassville, MO plant for not paying workers for time spent donning and doffing work clothes and time spent following...
  • Settlements and Verdicts: Don King.
    A $14 million settlement has been reached in the $100 million lawsuit filed by Mike Tyson. (Jun-27-04) [ SHERDOG ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please click the link below to submit your complaint. ...
  • Wild Planet Tuna Class Action Settlement Reached
    Santa Clara, CA: A settlement has been reached in a consumer fraud class action lawsuit pending against Wild Planet and Sustainable Seas alleging their tinned tuna products were deliberately under-filled to below the 5-ounce weight stated on the product labels. Under terms of the tuna settlement, Wild Planet will create a settlement fund of $1.7...
  • Bumble Bee Pleads Guilty to Tuna Price Fixing with Possible $25M Fine
    Washington, DC: Bumble Bee Foods LLC has agreed to plead guilty to charges of price fixing practices on its tinned tuna products and pay a criminal fine of at least $25 million to the US Department of Justice (DOJ). The charges against Bumble Bee are the first to be brought by the DOJ in its ongoing investigation of antitrust practices in the...
  • “Quit or Die, N----r,” Read the Note
    Sep-17-21 Fresno, CA Three former employees of Kraft Heinz Foods Co. at the Tulare, California plant have filed a lawsuit citing violations of federal and California employee labor laws including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; the California Fair Employment and H...
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