CALIFORNIA: E. coli lawyer is busier than ever - (Associated Press)
February 4, 2008 – 7:25 pmSAN FRANCISCO — A girl fell into a 40-day coma after eating a bad Jack in the Box hamburger. Fifteen years later, she is still suffering ill effects. That doesn’t bode well for a toddler who spent six weeks in the hospital in 2006 after eating E. coli-tainted spinach from California.
But both have lawyer William Marler in their corner — and that’s no small consolation.
The Seattle-based Marler is the undisputed king of food poisoning litigation. He has made good money from bad food, ringing up more than $300 million in settlements for his clients in the rapidly growing legal field of food safety.
Marler was quoted as saying, “There is a sense of complacency in the meat industry that believes, `Hey, we solved that problem and we don’t have to watch it so much.’”
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