Author: Tony Coveny, Ph.D
Tony Coveny, Ph.D
Tony Coveny, has been practicing infectious disease litigation exclusively for more than a decade, settling cases against major agro-industrial companies, international suppliers, and domestic distributors and manufacturers. Tony Coveny, alongside Ron Simon, has tried cases against restaurants, distributors, national manufacturers, and foreign corporations to recover damages against their clients. From the main office in Houston, which he manages, he speaks to potential and current clients on a daily basis.
A café in the Walmart Home Office in Bentonville, Arkansas, was closed after nearly 300 individuals became sick with Shigella poisoning. The Salsarita’s Restaurant is at the heart of an investigation of 275 illnesses in nine states, this according to a spokesperson for the Benton County Health Department (BCHD) which has conducted at least two inspections of Salsarita in the wake of the outbreak. The Arkansas Health Department (AHD) has confirmed that many of the victims were employees of Walmart, but others have also been sickened. The cause of the outbreak has not been conclusively determined, but among the violation…
Of the 15 victims of E. coli food poisoning identified by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), most (12) ate at a local Applebee’s restaurant in Blaine, Duluth, Roseville, Woodbury, Willmar, Monticello, Bemidji, or New Hope (all cities in Minnesota) between June 23 and June 29 of this year. And there are two separate locations of Applebee’s implicated in Blaine, MN so far. Investigators are working to trace the possible source of the E. coli poisoning beginning with the common food supplier servicing each of these Applebee’s locations. The MDH is interviewing victims and also asking anyone who has not…
About a dozen individuals have become ill with E. coli food poisoning on the Fond Du Lac Reservation in Minnesota, one of six Chippewa Indian Reservations in the state of Minnesota organized in 1934. Although located in Carlton and Saint Louis Counties, primarily, as a unique territorial entity the State of Minnesota’s Department of Health (MDH) is taking the lead in the investigation and has confirmed a handful of E-coli cases linked to consumption of food on the reservation. According to the MDH, between 6 and 12 victims have presented with symptoms in the last seven days. Preliminary testing confirm…
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has released a list of the nine Applebee’s locations where patrons have become ill with E. coli 0111 poisoning. These include locations in eight cities in Minnesota: two Applebee locations Blaine , and a single Applebee location in each of Bemidji, Duluth, Roseville, Willmar, Woodbury, Monticello and New Hope. The St. Cloud location, on Division Street was also initially on the list of possible sources, but has since been removed by investigators. The MDH has confirmed, so far, at least15 E. coli O111 outbreak victims – at least a dozen of whom ate at…
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is investigating an apparent E. coli outbreak in which at least 13 victims, aged 16-84, have become ill from ingestion of E. coli 0111 bacteria. According to a spokesperson, Applebee’s restaurants in Woodbury, Roseville, Blaine, Monticello, and Duluth Minnesota are at the heart of an investigation into the E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 13. A spokesperson for the MDH has revealed that each of the victims became ill after consuming food between June 24 and June 27, with 7 of the reported victims having eaten at Applebee’s. Complicating the investigation, however,…
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the multi-strain Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak linked to Foster Farms raw chicken has sickened individuals in Alabama (1), Alaska (1), Arkansas (1), Arizona (25), California (480), Colorado (9), Connecticut (1), Delaware (1), Florida (4), Georgia (1), Hawaii (1), Idaho (5), Illinois (1), Kentucky (1), Louisiana (1), Michigan (4), Missouri (5), Montana (1), North Carolina (1), Nevada (11), New Mexico (2), Oregon (17), Puerto Rico (1), Tennessee (1), Texas (13), Utah (6), Virginia (4), Washington (20), West Virginia (1), and Wisconsin (1). State health department tallies include additional victims – with…
Foster Farms Brand Chicken is one of the nation’s most popular in both supermarkets and for use in restaurant cooking. But over the last 15 months, at least 574 confirmed cases of Salmonella Heidelberg, including as many as seven separate strains of the bacteria, have been linked to consumption of this product. And while it is impossible to state with certainly, the actual number of victims may be approaching twenty thousand, based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimation that only about 1 in 30 victims of food poisoning seek medical attention. And in fact in March…
Fresno-based Foster Farms, one of the nation’s leading producers of raw chicken, has finally issued a limited recall of at least one product that has been implicated in a massive outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg – raw chicken breasts. With number of illnesses still growing, including at least 600 cases in California alone, Foster Farms has resisted ever growing calls to issue a recall of its raw chicken. As such, the outbreak that includes at least seven strains of Salmonella Heidelberg has continued unabated for over a year, sickening many and hospitalizing hundreds with antibiotic resistant strains of Salmonella Heidelberg. Foster…
According to DecaturDaily.com, a public lunch provided for elderly citizens has been linked to food poisoning cases in the Decatur-Morgan County region of Alabama. Although the investigation is still in its infancy, health investigators have identified approximately 20 victims of food poisoning, including one fatality linked to E. coli. A State Health Department official, commenting on the Morgan County outbreak, indicates that at least two of the victims have suffered E. coli poisoning, including the decedent. The other 16 victims, presenting at three local hospitals, have tested positive for salmonella. A State epidemiologist, Dr. Mary McIntyre, has indicated that the…
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) has revised upwards its official count of the number of salmonella victims linked to El Patron restaurant in Russellville, Alabama. As of June 20, 2014, 14 victims have been identified and confirmed in this outbreak. It remains unclear if that number will continue to climb as more and more people find out about the outbreak through the local media, and therefore seek medical attention and report their illnesses, but previous studies demonstrate that the number of victims is likely far greater than 14. Dr. Karen Landers, an Assistant State Health Officer for ADPH,…