Tennessee Injury Law Center

My wife had hamburger steak dinner in a Clarksville, Tennessee restaurant about one week ago.  About three hours later she began developing severe nausea, bad stomach cramps and diarrhea.   She ended up in the hospital with kidney problems and the doctor said that she had an infection caused by e coli.   Her kidney may be permanently damaged.  What are her rights?

  It is estimated  that 76 million foodborne illness cases occur in the United States every year after eating foods contaminated with such pathogens as E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, Hepatitis A, Campylobacter, Shigella, Norovirus, and Listeria.  Each year approximately 325,000 people are hospitalized with a diagnosis of food poisoning, and some 5,000 die.  

First, you should contact your local health department and report the problem.  The health department should immediately inspect the restaurant.  This will reduce the likelihood that additional  people will suffer  the same problems you developed.

I just bought four new tires on my call three weeks ago.  As I was driving down Interstate 24 near Nashville the front tire blew out, causing me to lose control of my car.  The car rolled and my entire family was hurt in the wreck   Do we have any rights against the manufacturer of the tires? 

Perhaps.   It is essential that you contact a lawyer who has experience in products liability cases as soon as possible.  It the meantime, preserve whatever is left of the tire and the other tires on the car.  Also, the entire car should be preserved – do not permit your auto insurer to allow it to be destroyed.

You will need the tire itself so that you can determine what went wrong with it (if anything).  You need to preserve the other tires and the car so that an expert can better understand what caused the wreck and what, if anything, was wrong with the tire that blew out.