Infectious Disease Expert Can Testify In Foodborne Illness Case, Judge Rules

Mealey's (January 28, 2019, 12:18 PM EST) -- CHARLESTON, S.C. — With an infectious disease expert’s testimony allowed, a couple’s strict liability and breach of warranty claims over a case of food poisoning allegedly from a flounder dinner while on vacation survive a restaurant’s summary judgment bid, though their negligence claim fails for lack of proof that the restaurant caused the flounder to become infected, a South Carolina federal judge held Jan. 25 (Erna Kiessling, et al. v. Kiawah Island Inn Company LLC, No. 2:17-cv-02146, D. S.C., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12057)....