California Foodborne Illness Lawyer
CALIFORNIA FOODBORNE ILLNESS LAWYER SEBASTIAN GIBSON, NAMED A TOP LAWYER 14 YEARS IN A ROW WITH OVER 45 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
The Right Choice in Norovirus, Hepatitis, E. Coli, Listeria, Campylobacter, Staphlococcus, Clostridium Perfringens, Shigella and Salmonella Food Poisoning Attorneys
When you’ve suffered food poisoning anywhere in California, finding the right California Foodborne Illness Lawyer Sebastian Gibson is essential to protect your rights and to make sure you obtain the compensation you deserve for your injuries and all you’ve been through.
California Foodborne Illness Lawyer Sebastian Gibson offers over 45 years of experience representing injury victims and clients who deserve the best in legal representation and is ready to provide immediate assistance to you and yours after a food poisoning.
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An Experienced California Foodborne Illness Lawyer, Sebastian Gibson
At the Law Firm of California Foodborne Illness Lawyer Sebastian Gibson, we have over 45 years of legal experience and millions of dollars in settlements to our name. California Foodborne Illness Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has been recognized by Palm Springs Life Magazine as One of the Top Lawyers of 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011 and by Avvo as a “Superb” Lawyer. If you want a top lawyer on your side, call Sebastian Gibson. Call us today at (760) 776-1810.
Today, Norovirus has become the leading cause of food poisoning also known as foodborne illness. The foods most likely today to be associated with norovirus are prepared foods, frozen berries and shellfish.
Unfortunately, food poisoning cases are costly and complicated. Experts must be called in and litigation is expensive. But assuming your case is a serious one and not simply a case where you were queasy for just a short while, and you’ve been hospitalized and told you had food poisoning or a foodborne illness, the question now becomes, what do you do now?
Hopefully, the hospital pumped your stomach and is testing the contents. Unfortunately, they rarely do that so you may need to preserve the evidence, i.e. the food that made you sick, yourself. Place it in a freezer for safe keeping in a freezer bag and don’t touch it or eat it.
Next, if possible have the food tested if you saved it in a freezer and have been diagnosed at a hospital with foodborne illness. A link can be made between the food that has the pathogen or bacteria and your illness. Well-equipped labs can test the food for pathogens. Make sure PFGE testing is done so it can be determined if people sickened by bacteria with the same PFGE patterns were sickened by the same source.
If the you haven’t already done so, contact a medical health care professional immediately. If you have seen one previously and the food tested positive for a bacteria, follow up with your doctor. There may be worse to come.
You should also call your local California County health department. Because you can catch foodpoisoning from a dirty kitchen counter or from touching poultry or bacteria infected food and not thoroughly washing your hands, it becomes vitally important for a foodborne illness attorney such as Sebastian Gibson to learn others have also been infected with a foodborne illness or virus from the same source as yours.
Palm Desert and Indio Food Poisoning Lawyer
If you’ve been hospitalized from food poisoning and told you have a foodborne illness, call our law firm so we can speak to you about your case and evaluate the link between the food and your illness and determine the damages involved. You must act quickly in a foodborne illness case or one that causes food poisoning to your family.
Some of the most common culprits in foodborne illness cases are:
Listeria
Salmonella
Botulism
Shigella
Listeria
Staphyloccus aureus
Clostridium perfringens
E. coli
Bacillus cereus
Yersinia
Campylobacter
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis E
Norwalk (a type of Norovirus)
Norovirus
If You’ve Been Hospitalized For Food Poisoning, Call California Foodborne Illness Lawyer Sebastian Gibson Immediately
Remember, for you to have a food poisoning case, there must be evidence that the food was contaminated with a foodborne pathogen. Food that’s been tested can prove this when E. coli or another pathogen is found in a sample of the same food or when a number of other people who ate at the same restaurant or other food serving event at or around the same time contracted the same foodborne illness.
You must also have damages, i.e. medical bills, wage loss or considerable out of pocket expenses connected with the food poisoning. In a worst case scenario, a family can lose a loved one who has been infected with a foodborne bacteria, virus, parasite, fungi or toxin.
When you need the best lawyer for a food poisoning or foodborne illness case, consider California Foodborne Illness Lawyer Sebastian Gibson. With offices in Palm Desert and Newport Beach, our lawyers, including one of the country’s top trial attorneys with whom we collaborate, can assist you with your food poisoning case in the Coachella Valley, Orange County and throughout California and the entire country.
Frequency of Norovirus and Hepatitis Food Poisoning and Foodborne Illness
Each year, Norovirus is estimated there are 125 million cases of foodborne illness in the world and 35,000 deaths on a global scale. Norovirus reportedly causes 2,500 outbreaks in the U.S. and accounts for approximately 58% of foodborne illness in the U.S.
Severe outcomes which result in hospitalization and death primarily affect children under five years of age, the elderly, and individuals with chronic illnesses and immunodeficiencey diseases who may not only be more susceptible but who may spread the virus for an extended period of time. Medications can also suppress a person’s immune system and make a person more prone to foodborne disease.
Second in frequency of the causes of foodborne illness is Hepatitis A which causes another 14 million cases of foodborne illness across the globe each year and 28,000 fatalities.
Third in frequency today is the Hepatitis E virus which may have been undercounted for years and which can cause severe illness, especially for those with other health conditions and which can result in chronic liver failure and neurological damage.
A person can get food poisoning by eating or drinking contaminated food, beverages including water, from bacteria on surfaces, and from others, but also from food not washed well or handled in a sanitary way, not cooked to a safe internal temperature, or left out too long.
