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| Dole Settles Two Lawsuits Over Listeria Outbreak |  | Dole Fresh Vegetables, Inc. has settled two recent civil suits against them over a listeria outbreak that occurred at the company's plant in Springfield, Ohio. The Springfield plant was temporarily closed last January and the outbreak affected at least 19 people in the United States. The most recent lawsuit had been filed after a 79-year-old woman ate one of the company's bagged salad mixes, got an infection caused by the listeria bacteria, and died the following month. The settlement terms in both lawsuits were not disclosed.
Matt Sanctis, Dayton Daily News 04/28/2017    | | Read Article: Dayton Daily News |
| A Doctor Called His Broker During a Delivery | | A Miami Gardens couple won a $33.8 million medical malpractice judgment in April after a South Florida obstetrician was found negligent during delivery of their baby, who was born with permanent brain damage. But as the couple would later find out, they were not the first parent to sue the doctor for seriously injuring a newborn he delivered in 2013. The baby (E.J.) was born with hypoxic ischemic-encephalopathy, a form of permanent brain damage. He will need a lifetime of round-the-clock medical care, including a nurse and future surgeries, and daily medications. In April, a federal judge ruled that the doctor who delivered EJ failed to offer or perform an emergency Cesarean section delivery, which may have prevented EJâ??s brain damage. The doctor blamed the baby's mother and falsified her patient record to make it appear that she had refused.
DANIEL CHANG, Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee 05/01/2017 | | Read Article: The Sacramento Bee |
| Fox News Employees File Racial Discrimination Suit | | 11 former and current employees have joined an expanded lawsuit that accuses the Fox News Channel of racial discrimination. Kelly Wright, the network's only on-air black anchor, joined the lawsuit last week saying that the company has a "culture of systemic and institutional racial bias." The network has denied the allegations and calls them "copycat complaints." As it currently stands, the expanded lawsuit is asking for unspecified compensatory damages and for the network to update their employment practices.
Staff Report, CBSNews.com 04/26/2017 | | Read Article: CBSNews.com |
| Nearly 132,000 Pounds of Frozen Chicken Recalled | | Foster Farms joins a growing recent list of food companies that have had to issue recalls on their products due to foreign contamination. About 131,880 pounds of five-pound bags of Foster Farms frozen breaded chicken breast patties were recalled last Thursday after at least three customers found plastic in the patties. This follows the recent discoveries of "golf ball parts" in frozen hash browns, metal magnets inside packaged sausage, and a fresh bat that was allegedly found in a container of organic spring mix salad.
David Neal, Miami Herald 04/29/2017 | | Read Article: Miami Herald |
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