Over the years, there have been a number of food poisoning lawsuit cases, and more are continuously filed each day. Here are just a few examples: -ConAgra Peanut Butter Settlement: While the settlement amount was confidential, a major outbreak lead to more than 750 victims suing the food producer over salmonella-tainted peanut butter. -The Great Maple Leaf Listeria Outbreak: The Canadian food distributor faced an outbreak of Listeria that killed 20 people and caused thousands more to become violently ill. Maple Leaf foods paid out almost $27 million to the victims. -The Holiday Inn at Fisherman’s Wharf: In 1988 William Kirkparick of Redding, CA was poisoned by raw oysters at the Holiday Inn at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco and received a settlement of $1 million, the largest award ever in a food product liability case at the time.