Bill Marler

<p>Today we welcome <a href="https://marlerclark.com/"><strong>Bill Marler</strong></a></p> <h2>Meet William Marler</h2> <p>An accomplished attorney and national expert in food safety, <a href= "https://marlerclark.com/lawyers/william-marler">William (Bill) Marler</a> has become the most prominent foodborne illness lawyer in America and a major force in food policy in the U.S. and around the world. <a href="https://marlerclark.com/">Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm</a>, has represented thousands of individuals in claims against food companies whose contaminated products have caused life-altering injury and even death.</p> <p>He began litigating foodborne illness cases in 1993 when he represented Brianne Kiner, the most seriously injured survivor of the historic Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak, in her landmark $15.6 million settlement with the company. The 2011 book, <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Poisoned-Deadly-Outbreak-Changed-Americans/dp/098495435X">Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. coli Outbreak that Changed the Way Americans Eat</a>, by best-selling author Jeff Benedict, chronicles the Jack in the Box outbreak and the rise of Bill Marler as a food safety attorney.</p> <p>For the last 26 years, he has represented victims of nearly every large foodborne illness outbreak in the United States. He has filed lawsuits against such companies as Chili’s, Chi-Chi’s, Cargill, ConAgra, Dole, Excel, Golden Corral, KFC, McDonald’s, Odwalla, Peanut Corporation of America, Sheetz, Sizzler, Supervalu, Taco Bell, and Wendy’s, securing over $700,000,000 for victims of E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria, and other foodborne illnesses.</p> <p>Among the most notable cases he has litigated, Bill counts those of nineteen-year-old dancer Stephanie Smith, who was sickened by an E. coli-contaminated hamburger that left her brain-damaged and paralyzed, and Linda Rivera, a fifty-seven-year-old mother of six from Nevada, who was hospitalized for over 2 years after she was stricken with what her doctor described as “t