Hepatitis A Lawsuit FAQ - Pizza Ranch in Minnesota
Last week, food workers at the Pizza Ranch in Slayton, Minnesota, tested positive for hepatitis A. As a result, over 2,300 people who ate at the restaurant had immune globulin shots in hopes of preventing hepatitis A infections. At least one patron of the restaurant has tested positive for hepatitis A.
Minnesota food poisoning attorney Fred Pritzker is providing an FAQ page on the Pritzker | Ruohonen Web site for patrons of the Pizza Ranch in Slayton. The FAQ answers questions about hepatitis A lawsuits, including questions that patrons of the restaurant may have about evidence, liability and damages.
“Foodborne illness litigation, which includes hepatitis A lawsuits, is a specialty area of the law,” says Pritzker. “By providing this FAQ, I hope to inform patrons of the Pizza Ranch restaurant about their legal options as they consider the injuries they have suffered by being exposed to hepatitis A.”
The following are two questions and answers from Pritzker’s FAQ page on his website (read the entire hepatitis a / Pizza Ranch lawsuit FAQ):
Question: How is hepatitis A spread by a restaurant employee?
If a food handler at a restaurant who has hepatitis A does not wash his or her hands well after going to the bathroom, any feces left on the hands can get into patrons’ food. Because the hepatitis A virus colonizes in human feces, anyone eating the infected food handler’s feces will consume hepatitis A and thereby be infected.
Question: Do I need to have leftovers from the Pizza Ranch to be compensated for my injuries?
No, you do not need to have leftovers to be compensated for your injuries. If you have record of eating at the restaurant and you test positive for hepatitis A (or do not test positive but needed an immune globulin shot), you may have a claim against the Pizza Ranch.
Fred Pritzker is founder and president of Pritzker | Ruohonen & Associates, P.A., one of the few law firms in the United States that practices extensively in the area of foodborne illness litigation. The firm is a national law firm with offices in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm is currently representing victims of a hepatitis A outbreak linked to an Arizona restaurant. To contact Minnesota personal injury lawyer Fred Pritzker or another food poisoning lawyer at Pritzker | Ruohonen, please call toll-free at 1-888-377-8900 or e-mail Fred Pritzker. Read more about the Minnesota personal injury lawyers at Pritzker | Ruohonen.