The national food poisoning law firm of Ron Sion & Associates has now filed two lawsuits and represents over a dozen of the victims in that is outbreak, says Ron Simon, the senior partner the firm. The food poisoning law firm is believed to represent all the victims who have stepped up and sought legal representation in this E. Coli outbreak against Miguel’s Cocina to date. “We have a long track-record as an infectious disease law firm,” says Simon, adding “especially in California and in the San Diego area. Over the last few years we have represented the Marine Recruits in the E. coli outbreak linked to food served at the base in San Diego, and represented all the victims in the San Diego County Fair E. coli outbreak, including the family of the young child who passed in that tragic outbreak.” These cases, he added, were in addition the the many, many food borne illness outbreaks his firm has handled across the U.S. over the last two decades.
In a recent interview with 7 San Diego, about the E. coli Miguel’s lawsuits, Simon noted:
“The only way you contract E. coli is by consuming some portion of human or animal feces. That’s where it comes from, as gross as that sounds. If you have, say, a sick worker that has the bacteria and does not wash his hands, then handles plate after plate, that’s how you get big outbreaks. But here it is more than that. We’ve got outbreak illnesses over a two week period of time. The only way that happens is if there are multiple surfaces in the kitchen that are contaminated.”
The lawsuits, as well as many of the other victims Simon’s firm represents, are seeking to find out what went wrong at Miguel’s Cocina, and to prevent this from happening again.
According to the County of San Diego’s Health and Human Services Agency (SDHHS), there are now 21 confirmed cases, but the specific food item or items that were contaminated remains under investigation. According to Anthony Coveny, an attorney who, along side Simon, represents the victims:
“Epidemiologists from Sacramento have collected left-overs from the home of some victims and taken it to be tested at in the state laboratory. We are waiting on those test results. But given what people report having eaten, the contamination is believed to have been wide-spread, and likely affected many different food items.”
The SDHHS investigation remains ongoing, and the restaurant remains closed.
