Lawsuits seek to shred Taylor Farms over ‘explosive diarrhea’ outbreak

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Lawsuits seek to shred Taylor Farms over ‘explosive diarrhea’ outbreak


(Legal Newsline) – Lawsuits have begun to land in courts across the country over the recent outbreak of “explosive diarrhea”-inducing bacterial contamination, beginning with lawsuits in Ohio federal court against owners of Taco Bell fast food restaurants, claiming lettuce used in their food products is at least partly to blame for the nationwide outbreak.

And now the legal actions have begun taking aim at lettuce and vegetables supplier Taylor Farms, including an action filed in San Jose federal court.
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But also on July 16, trial lawyers, filing in San Jose federal court, took a different tact in also suing Taylor Farms.

In that complaint, attorneys with the firms of Kaisey Law, of Santa Monica; Yagman PLLC, of Uniondale, New York; Reese LLP, of Minneapolis; and Laukaitis Law, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, filed a class action suit on behalf of potentially “hundreds of thousands or even millions” of people throughout the U.S.



The suit is being led by named plaintiffs Kait Gelbspan, of Los Angeles, and Victor Granados, of Seaford, New York.

Unlike the cases filed in Ohio and potentially many more personal injury complaints expected to follow, neither Gelbspan nor Granados claim to have fallen ill from consuming allegedly contaminated lettuce or other vegetables or fruit.

Rather, in their lawsuit, the plaintiffs and their lawyers claim Taylor Farms should be made to pay for allegedly not telling customers about the risk of Cyclosporiasis from their lettuce or other products, which allegedly misled them and other customers into continuing to purchase Taylor Farms products.

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