Orlando lawyers file peanut butter suit
The first class-action lawsuit against peanut butter maker ConAgra was filed by Orlando-based lawyers February 22, after floods of people reported getting sick from the tainted products and two deaths may be linked to eating the food. Lawyers with Morgan and Morgan out of Orlando filed the 12-page document in response to a flood of phone calls from peanut butter eaters. It could be legal relief for what could be at least 1,000 people in Florida who may have at one point since last summer fallen sick from Peter Pan or Great Value peanut butter. Attorneys said they are looking at two deaths possible linked to the peanut butter. "In one particular case, we have a client who ingested the peanut butter and then died as a result of a certain form of meningitis, a meningitis that can be linked to salmonella poisoning," Morgan and Morgan attorney Alexander Clem said.
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