Class Action Suit Filed Against Olive Garden For Potential Hepatitis A Exposure

An Olive Garden employee in Fayetteville, N.C. tested positive for hepatitis A a few weeks ago, potentially exposing thousands of customers to the disease. As a result, health officials have reported that about 3,000 people have received immunizations. Now a class action lawsuit has been filed by the firm Marler Clark, a Seattle-based law firm that specializes in foodborne-illness litigation. The complaint claims that patrons suffered from "lost wages, medical expenses, 'fear of harm and humiliation' and physical pain and injury."

The lawsuit seeks damages of over $10,000; other people can join as co-plaintiffs. Meanwhile, immunizations will continue to be offered at the Cumberland County free clinic until August 22.

Marler Clark has worked on hepatitis A exposure before from restaurants including Carl's Jr., Chi-Chi's, Chipotle, Friendly's, McDonald's, Quizno's, Subway, Taco Bell, among others.

Comments

[blacksmithn]

04:48 PM on 08/22/2011

When you're here, you're family.

A family that serves bad food with a side of communicable disease.

[Max Shaw]

03:34 PM on 08/22/2011

Damn it Pam!

[GerryS]

03:25 PM on 08/22/2011

I can cook as well as most chefs,

so I quit eating at restaurants years ago.

the money saved buys the mast AMAZING wines-------

[RealLifeReview]

12:30 PM on 08/22/2011

Well you can make restaurant recipes at home with these books at RealLifeReview.com. Might be a safer way.

[bobcarppgh]

12:25 PM on 08/22/2011

I'd think you had a better shot at a class-action lawsuit over the claim that what they serve to you constitutes Italian cuisine.

[GraphicMatt]

11:51 AM on 08/22/2011

I am amazed that 3,000 people ate at a single Olive Garden. That place is nasty.

[Ami Munro]

09:18 AM on 08/22/2011

Nasty place.

[Arashi]

11:19 AM on 08/22/2011

Nah, Fayetteville ain't so bad.

[Ami Munro]

01:10 PM on 08/22/2011

Olive Garden is nasty. Serves frozen foods, packaged salads, bottled dressing, stale bread sticks and now Hepatitis. OMG!

[LeoChild]

08:34 AM on 08/22/2011

Old people love Olive Garden and Bob Evans.

[Marilyn Gott]

10:28 AM on 08/22/2011

And feel sorry for young people with no brains.

[westbygoddoug]

05:14 PM on 08/22/2011

Bob Evans makes a decent breakfast.

[KarateKid]

08:01 AM on 08/22/2011

I've basically stopped eating in restaurants; haven't been in one in almost a year. And, you know what? I have stopped getting food poisoning and upset stomachs. There's definitely a correlation.

[leajazz]

07:43 AM on 08/22/2011

Eat out at your own risk.

[euromarkusx]

01:25 AM on 08/22/2011

Typical lawyer money-grab

[rafey]

07:27 PM on 08/21/2011

Oh please!

[narfpaul]

07:16 PM on 08/21/2011

"fear of harm and humiliation" seems like a little bit of a stretch.

[GraphicMatt]

11:52 AM on 08/22/2011

I'd be humiliated if anyone ever found me eating at an Olive Garden.

[songchannels]

06:14 PM on 08/21/2011

They should post a sign in their menus and on the entry way doors that says "eat at your own risk" to solve legal problems.

[bahkey]

05:00 PM on 08/21/2011

Everytime i go to a Olive garden it taste like spaghettioos. Then i get real sick at 2 or 3 am. in morning. Haven't been to one in over five years,even tho there's one two miles away.