California Listeria Food Poisoning Lawyers and Listeriosis Attorneys for Septicemia, Central Nervous System/Spinal or Brain Inflammation, Meningitis, Encephalitis, and Newborn Perinatal Disease. Listeria Food Poisening Outbreaks Southern and Northern California, San Diego to Sacramento, in Los Angeles the San Francisco Bay Area in Orange County San Bernardino Ventura Fresno Santa Clara County San Jose Berkeley and Oakland, We Are Here to Serve You.

Our Liseria lawyers represent those who have suffered Listeria related disease, inlcuding listeriosis, central nervous system, spinal or brain inflammation, or meningitis or encephalitis or septicemia. We also serve as attorneys in cases invoving the newborn baby who is diagnosed with any of these diseases as the result of Listeria poisoning contracted during the pregnancy or birth process. We represent those are suffer serious Listeria related disease here in California and nationally in Listeria outbreaks. Please consider our qualifications as California Listeria food poisoning attonreys and listeriosis lawyers. Our credentials generally in complex medical litigation, and our national acclaim as superior complex trial lawyers, are set forth below, and in the right column of this page. Then submit the "Listeria Attorney Case Evaluation Request" for a free consultation. You will receive a return call from our lead California food poisoning lawyer, Nick Allis, who will ask you about your medical condition and diagnosis, about the facts known to you about the sources or possible sources of your food poisening exposure, and he then provide you with his case evaluation and recommendations. Our Listeria food poisoning lawyers and listeriosis attorneys are available to serve you in Northern and Southern California, in San Francisco, the Bay Area, Berkeley and Oakland, Sacramento Santa Clara County, San Jose Fresno Santa Barbara Ventura the San Fernando Valley, Orange County San Bernardino and San Diego. We are your California complex trial attorneys of choice for Listeria food poisoning cases.

Our California Food Poisoning Lawyers Discuss Listeria Bacteria Food Poisoning, the "High Risk" Foods" Including Luncheon Meats, Hot Dogs, Sausage, Cold Cuts And Other Delicatessen or Deli Style Foods, And the Human Populations Most At Risk of Listeria Poisoning and Listeriosis, Including the Immune Compromised, Transplant Recipients, Cancer Patients, Persons Who Have Taken Steroids, the Elderly, the Young, Pregnant Women and Their Newborn Infants.

Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne bacterium. The foods which are most commonly associated with Listeria contamination include meat and dairy products Most Listeria outbreaks associated are with the consumption of convenience ready-to-eat meat foods, such as luncheon meats, hot dogs, sausage, cold cuts, and other delicatessen or deli-style meat and poultry foods. Unpasteurized milk is a high risk dairy product on a per serving basis and sometimes pasteurized milk may be contaminated in the packaging process. Soft cheeses are another source of Listeria outbreaks. It is a characteristic of Listeria that it can survive and grow in contaminated foods stored at refrigerator temperatures, and so foods such as deli or deli-style meat products which are not marketed to be reheated, or hot dogs which a percentage of the American population will sometimes consume straight from the package without reheating, are higher risk foods.

The “risk” associated with a particular food product can be variously calculated, such as on a “per serving” basis, or on a “per annum” basis, with the products making any particular "high risk" list dependent upon how the author defines the “risk.” Unpasteurized milk is a high risk product on a “per serving” basis, but a low risk product on a “per annum” basis given that only half the states permit the sale of unpasteurized milk and in those states less than 1 percent of the milk consumed is unpasteurized. Deli and deli style meat products are high risk foods both on a “per serving” and “per annum” basis. They may become contaminated in food processing, slicing, or packaging, they are commonly kept in refrigerators for longer periods of time both before and after purchase. Listeria can survive at temperatures well below freezing and will grow at common household refrigerator temperatures, indeed the bacterium grows best between 0 degrees and 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Deli and deli-style meats and poultry products are not commonly reheated prior to consumption, so that the Listeria bacteria are not killed before the food product is consumed. But Listeria can also be found in vegetable products and it is possible to contract Listeriosis from any contaminated food product which is not heated or reheated to temperatures sufficient to kill the bacteria.

The high risk human populations more likely to suffer serious disease resulting from Listeria exposure include the immune compromised, such as AIDS patients, individuals who have received transplants, cancer patients and those who have taken steroids such as prednisone and cortisone, young children, the elderly, pregnant woman and their newborns. Adults with healthy immune systems are less likely to contract serious disease following Listeria exposure.

Our California Listeriosis Lawyer Discuss Listeria Food Poisening, It's Symptoms And Related Diseases, Including Listeriosis, Central Nervous System Infection, Brain inflamation, Encephalitis, Spinal Inflamation, Meningitis, and Septicemia

Most cases of Listeria food poisoning result in relatively minor flu-like symptoms and no lasting health consequence, but serious disease can result, and Listeriosis is fatal in approximately 20 percent of infections. It is estimated that approximately 2500 will contract Listeriosis each year leading to approximately 500 fatalities. Serious disease resulting from Listeria poisoning include listeriosis and central nervous system infection or inflammation, including meningitis, spinal infection, and encephalitis, brain inflammation, as well as septicemia or blood poisoning.

Listeria related disease in newborns is particularly tragic. Pregnant women are included in the high risk group because their immune systems are also depressed during pregnancy. While the pregnant woman may suffer minor symptoms of Listeria poisoning, she is at greater risk of miscarriage and premature birth, the fetus may become infected in utero or in the birthing process, which may result in septicemia, meningitis and encephalitis in the newborn.

If you or a loved one has suffered serious disease resulting from Listeria exposure, contact our California Listeria poisoning lawyers, you are welcome to submit the "Listeria Attorney Consultation Request Form" and our lead food poisoning attorney will explore the facts of your case with you and will provide his case evaluation and recommendations. Our california listeriosis attorney case consultations are absolutely free of charge or obligation. We welcome the opportunity to speak with you.

California Listeria Lawyers Credentials. Our Food Poisoning Attorneys Nick Allis and Ray Henke and Their Law Firms Have Joined Forces to Represent Those Suffering Serious Listeria Disease, Listeriosis, Meningitis, Encephalitis, and Septicemia, Premature Babys, Infants Born with Spinal or Brain Inflammation from Listeria Infection. We Are Listeria Attorneys and Listeriosis Lawyers Serving Northern and Southern California in the San Francisco Bay Area Los Angeles Orange County San Diego Fresno Santa Clara County San Jose Sacramento Berkeley Oakland. We Offer Free Case Evaluations.

California Listeria food poisoning lawyer and listeriosis attorney, Nick Allis has spent all of his 30 year career trying the very most complex medical and pharmaceutical cases, and the past several years actively involved in food poisoning litigation. Most recently attorney Allis obtained one of the largest multimillion dollar settlements ever obtained in an E coli HUS case. The specific amount of the settlement was sealed by the Court.

In the 20 years of his practice prior to becoming involved in food poisoning litigation, California Listeria and listeriosis lawyer Nick Allis’ concentrated on highly complex medical litigation, food and drug and pharmaceutical product liability litigation through which he prepared himself for his concentration specifically in food poisoning litigation. He obtained extensive training and education in epidemiology and medical science to distinguish himself as a nationally acclaimed medical and pharmaceutical product liability lawyer. Over the past several years he has extensively studied the epidemiological, medical and scientific literature on Listeria, E coli HUS, TPT, Botulism, Campylobacter Hepatitis A Shingella, Salmonella, Reiter's Syndrome and Norovirus. Reflecting his determination to distinguish himself as a food poisoning lawyer, this very highly respected trial attorney, Mr. Allis, took the course and passed the test to become a Certified Food Manager to gain specific knowledge and understanding of food management practices from the bottom up. Mr. Allis has also assembled a team of the most highly qualified experts specifically for the presentation of food poisoning litigation.

Attorney Allis has now, with his landmark multimillion dollar E. coli HUS settlement, established his national presence as the most highly respected California food poisoning lawyer. And it was solely because of Mr. Allis' reputation as a trial lawyer, his track record in the most complex medical and pharmaceutical liability cases, his specific legal concentration in the food poisoning litigation, and his devotion to the preparation this particular case, as he devotes himself to every case, that he was able to obtain this landmark settlement for his client.

California Listeria attorney, Mr. Allis received his B.A. degree from Yale University and his Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University. At Georgetown Law Center, Mr. Allis served on the executive board of the Georgetown Law Journal. For his first year after law school he clerked for a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He then became a partner in the acclaimed Law Office Butler, Dan, Allis and Reback which specialized in food and drug cases nationally. Mr. Allis has extensive litigation experience, serving as lead attorney in over 60 major jury trials. Attorney Allis has argued before the United Sates Supreme Court and is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar. In addition to food poisoning cases Mr. Allis has litigated many of the most complex cases involving the presentation of epidemiological evidence similar to that which is presented Listeria, Listeriosis, meningitis, and encephalitis cases, as well involving the application of Food and Drug law, in drug and pharmaceutical product litigation, including DES, the Dalcon Shield, Breast Implants, Phen-Phen, Bendectin, and Tylenol.

California listeriosis attorney, Allis, has served as the President of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, one of the most prestigious and largest lawyer associations with a membership of over 3000 attorneys. Attorney Allis is on the board of Public Counsel, the largest national public interest law firm in the United States. He a lecturer for Continuing Education of the Bar, for the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles and for the Consumer Attorneys Associations of California. He has published legal articles in such journals as the Georgetown Law Journal, the University of Southern California Law Review.

Food poisoning and Listeria attorney Nick Allis and his firm are "AV" rated by Martindale & Hubbell, the highest lawyer and law firm rankings awarded by the most highly respected lawyer and law firm rating directory in the United States. Martindale & Hubbell ratings are based on interviews with judges before whom the attorney has practiced and interviews with other prominent lawyers in the state. "A" is defined as "very high to preeminent" in "legal ability"; "V" is defined as "very high" "general ethical standards." According to Martindale & Hubbell: "AV Peer Review Rating shows that a lawyer has reached the height of professional excellence. He or she has usually practiced law for many years, and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity."

It is Mr. Allis who will take the lead in prosecuting all Listeria food poisoning litigation. Attorney Henke will accept only a secondary supporting role in the cases out of his great respect for Mr. Allis' specific experience in the litigation.

Food and drug attorney Mr. Henke is a nationally acclaimed medical malpractice and drug product liability lawyer. He has been recognized by his trial lawyer peers specifically for his accomplishments in complex drug product liability litigation, and indeed nominated "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association, now the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, the fifth largest trial lawyer association in the United States, specifically for his prosecution of one such body of complex drug litigation. Attorney Henke also received the "President's Award" from the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles. Attorney Henke has also received widespread recognition in the legitimate press specifically for his prosecution of important medical and pharmaceutical cases, prosecuted under the Food Drug & Cosmetic Act. His cases and trials have been chronicled in the legitimate press across the nation, from the front page of the New York Times to the front page of the Los Angeles Times, from the Washington Post to the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner. Attorney, Henke’s cases have also been described in serious state and national legal magazines and journals, from California Lawyer to the National Law Journal. Henke's prosecution of important complex drug litigation has been chronicled also in the legitimate national and international television news media again specifically for his participation in medical and pharmaceutical litigation, e.g., Tom Brokaw's NBC Nightly News, CNN. Attorney Henke has testified before Congress about his drug cases and use of punitive damage claims to punish the drug manufacturers, at the invitation of the Chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee. With the nationally acclaimed pharmaceutical product liability law firm of Butler, Dan Allis & Reback, attorney Henke was involved in Dalkon Shield, DES, Thalidomide, Bendectin and DPT litigation. Attorney Henke was also involved in the breast implant litigation and the asbestos litigation, and in prosecuting AIDS drug fraud litigation involving the drug Viroxan. Mr. Henke has also achieved important published appellate victories in drug product litigation which have application in the food poisoning outbreak litigation, including a landmark published federal court of appeals class action opinion which defines the scope of permissible federal court mandatory class action.

Attorney Henke is a former Governor of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, elected to the prestigious leadership position by the several thousand strong membership of this 5th largest trial lawyer bar in the United States. He also served for several years in the prestigious position of Editor-in-Chief of the LATLA Advocate Law Journal.

Food and Drug lawyer Ray Henke is "AV" rated by Martindale and Hubbell, "A" connoting "very high to preeminent" legal ability, and "V"connoting "very high" ethical standards. He is listed as one of the "Top Lawyers in America" and a member of the "Million Dollar Advocates Forum" commonly referred to as "the most prestigious lawyer group in the of the States."

Attorney Henke has published over 30 articles in "Trial," "Forum," and "Advocate," the journals of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Consumer Attorneys Association of California, and the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles.

Mr. Henke obtained his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of San Francisco Law School in 1979, served on the USF Law Review, received American Jurisprudence Award and interned with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Our Listeria food poisoning lawyers will consider Listeria cases involving listeriosis, encephalitis, meningitis, and septicemia arising in Southern or Northern California, Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Bay Area, Berkeley and Oakland, Sacramento Santa Clara County San Jose Fresno Santa Barbara Ventura the San Fernando Valley Orange County San Bernardino and San Diego. Our California Listeria food poisoning lawyers and listeriosis attorneys will also consider referrals of serious injury Listeria food poisoning and listeriosis cases from lawyers in other states, and will consider serving as trial counsel in any state in the country where we are requested to do so by local counsel, and with the permission of the state court, pro hac vice.

If you or a loved one has suffered Listeria related disease, listeriosis, meningitis, encephalitis or septicemia, or if you are parents of a child who was born prematurely or has suffered listeriosis related disease as a baby, you are welcome to contact us for a free consultation. Simply submit the "Listeriosis Attorney Case Evaluation Request" and our lead California Listeria poisoning lawyer, Nick Allis will call you to discuss the facts of your case and offer his initial impressions and recommendations. Our case consultations are entirely free of charge.

Listeriosis Outbreaks and The Importance of Identifying the Source of Exposure to Listeria Food Poisening in Litigation. Listeria Lawyers and Listeriosis Attorneys Must Prove That the Disease Resulted from a Specific Contaminated Food Product. In a Listeria Outbreak the Source of the Exposure May be Obvious. Consider the CDC Outbreak Updates for Alaska Alabama Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Massachusetts Maryland Maine Michigan Minnesota Missouri Montana North Carolina North Dakota Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico Nevada New York Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Vermont Washington Wisconsin West Virginia and Wyoming.

As a practical matter, in Listeria food poisoning and listeriosis litigation the lawyers must establish a number of elements of the "cause of action," one of which is that the plaintiff was exposed to the Listeria bacteria as the result of his or her ingestion of a particular food product. This can be shown in a number of ways, depending on the facts of the case, but it becomes more obvious if a particular food, such as a ready-to-eat meat food product, luncheon meat or hot dog, deli or deli-style meat or poultry, cold cut, sausage, or soft cheese, as examples, result in multiple cases of Listeria illness, listeriosis, meningitis, encephalitis, septicemia, and deaths.

In the event of multiple cases of Listeria poisoning the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will look for the common denominators in the histories of suspect food stuffs consumed by population of those who have contracted Listeria, listeriosis, and the associated diseases. The CDC or FDA will also attempt to obtain samples of the food product to conduct tests to identify the Listeria bacterium in the food. The CDC and FDA will also investigate the source of the processing, or packaging or other contamination. In this way the CDC and FDA perform an invaluable service in alerting the public not to eat the contaminated products, alerting the involved producers, distributors and retailers to recall the product and remove the product from store shelves, and the investigation may also lead to corrections in the procedures of those involved and sometimes lead to changes in industry practices.

For Listeria food poisoning attorneys and listeriosis lawyers, the proof of the source of his client’s exposure to the particular food product, leading to the client’s Listeria illness, listeriosis, blood poisoning or septicemia, meningitis, and/or encephalitis will often be aided by the broader investigatory and epidemiological information obtained by the CDC and FDA.

Listeria outbreaks most commonly occur as the results of consumption of hot dogs or ready-to-eat foods such as deli and deli-style meat and poultry products, luncheon meats, cold cuts, fermented or dry sausage, unpasteurized milk and soft cheeses, although by no means should the list or any list be deemed exclusive. Pasteurized milk, for example, while not a high risk food product, can result in Listeriosis when the product is contaminated during packaging.

If you or a loved one has suffered Listeria illness or related disease, listeriosis, central nervious system spinal or brain inflamation or infection, meningitis, encephalitis, or septicemia as the result of a Listeria outbreak, or an individual incident of Listeria poisoning outside the context of a documented Listeria outbreak you are welcome to submit our "California Listeria Food Poisoning and Listeriosis Lawyers Case Evaluation Request" and we will be pleased to provide you a free attorney case evaluation.