A Wisconsin woman has sued San Juan Bautista-based Natural
Selection Foods
– along with Dole, Mission Organics and the grocery store chain
Pic ‘n Save – in connection with illness she suffered after the
2006 E. coli outbreak, according to a press release from the law
firm representing the woman.
HOLLISTER
A Wisconsin woman has sued San Juan Bautista-based Natural Selection Foods – along with Dole, Mission Organics and the grocery store chain Pic ‘n Save – in connection with illness she suffered after the 2006 E. coli outbreak, according to a press release from the law firm representing the woman.
Jane Mjeska, an 85-year-old resident of Fond du Lac, Wis., became sick from E. coli in August 2006, according to Marler Clark, a Seattle firm representing the woman along with the Fond du Lac firm of Sager Colwin Samuelsen.
The same Marler Clark law firm also represented families of 81-year-old Ruby Trautz of Nebraska, 83-year-old Betty Howard of Washington and 86-year-old June Dunning of Maryland – who settled a wrongful death lawsuit out of court in April 2007 related to the outbreak. It had been the first publicly announced settlement to come out of the 2006 outbreak.
The statement notes that Mjeska fought to stay alive after consuming tainted Dole spinach, with hospital costs reaching nearly $500,000. The firm contends she her months in the hospital were “marked by increasingly invasive procedures to address her cascading illnesses.” The release goes on to say she experienced renal failure, a stroke, cognitive impairment, a collapsed lung, a pulmonary embolism and the inability to eat or breath on her own.
Attorneys filed the lawsuit Thursday at the Fond du Lac County Circuit Court.
The E. coli outbreak sickened more than 200 people in 2006 and was spread through prepackaged spinach processed at San Juan Bautista-based Natural Selection Foods.
