A proposed Class Action right case was brought against McDonald’s on Tuesday, the latest court case on the E. Coli outbreak linked to the quarter pound of the fast food chain.
The complaint, which the court certification needs to continue as a Class Action, is looking for compensation of more than $ 5 million for customers throughout the country who have purchased contaminated quarter pounds. It claims that McDonald’s was not well known that there was a risk that E. coli was associated with the menu items.
“McDonald’s has the responsibility to find his products that it will serve other people from safe facilities,” said Roy Wiley, the lawyer who represents the claimants. “In the event that they cannot guarantee that they then have a responsibility to warn:” Perhaps this product can be dangerous. “”
No “reasonable consumer” would pay for quarter pounds if they knew they were infected with a pathogen, Wiley added.
“McDonald’s has the responsibility to act, pay people back and do it better,” he said.
The lawsuit was brought on behalf of Amanda McCray from Chicago and William Michael Kraft from Davie, Florida – customers who bought quarter pounds earlier this month and then experienced many of the symptoms related to E. coli infection “, said the complaint did not give How sick they got.
McDonald’s refused to comment on the court case on Wednesday, which was brought to the Northern district of Illinois. The chain, with head office in Chicago, has apologized to customers and has sworn to recover their confidence after the outbreak.
“The issue seems to have been included in a certain ingredient and geography, and we remain confident that every polluted product related to this outbreak has been removed from our supply chain and is from all McDonald’s restaurants,” McDonald’s Chief Supply Chain Officer of Noord -America Cesar Piña said in a statement on Sunday, and added that testing of a quarter pound of beef paternies did not show any detection by E. coli.
Zowel McDonald’s als de Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hebben gezegd dat de meest waarschijnlijke bron van de besmetting gesneden uien lijken te zijn die afkomstig waren van één leverancier, Taylor Farms, en die werden geserveerd op Quarter Pounders. McDonald’s heeft de uien uit zijn restaurants verwijderd.
Taylor Farms heeft gezegd dat het samenwerkt met de CDC en de Food and Drug Administration en de uien vrijwillig heeft teruggeroepen.
At least 90 people in 13 states have been sickened by E. coli after eating McDonald’s food, and one person has died, according to the CDC. There have been at least 27 hospitalizations, including a teenager who struggled with kidney failure after developing hemolytic uremic syndrome, a rare and potentially life-threatening complication.
Typical symptoms of E. coli infections include stomach cramps, diarrhea and vomiting, the CDC said. Most people who get sick recover within a week without treatment. People younger than 5 and older than 65, as well as those with weakened immune systems, are at risk for more severe illness.
The proposed class-action lawsuit is at least the third lawsuit related to the E. coli outbreak. A Nebraska woman and a Colorado man both filed personal injury lawsuits against McDonald’s earlier this month. Both had to go to the emergency room because of their illnesses, the complaints said.
The plaintiffs in Tuesday’s lawsuit allege that McDonald’s breached its duty to provide products that are safe for consumption and allege that the company engaged in “fraudulent, unfair, deceptive, misleading and/or unlawful conduct arising from its omissions regarding the risk of E. coli contamination of the products.”
McDonald’s declined to comment on the allegations in the lawsuit.
Willey said he has received “numerous” calls from people wanting to join the class action lawsuit and expects the number of representatives to grow. He said he hopes the lawsuit will do more than just secure financial compensation for customers.
“The hope would be twofold: First, that McDonald’s does the right thing, comes forward and says, ‘Here’s what happened in full transparency, here’s the money you paid back,’” the attorney said. “‘And going forward, we’re going to be more scrutinizing our suppliers to make sure they’re following food safety protocols.’”