Hospitality Industry Legal Risks: California Restaurant Found "40% Liable" In $2.5 Million Jury Award To Woman Who Had "Chicken Bone" Stuck In Her Throat While Eating

“…In a verdict delivered April 26 in Contra Costa County, a jury determined Foster Farms, which supplied the poultry for the chicken strips on the pizza, was 60 percent liable for her injuries and Pizza Bytes, which runs several Round Table restaurants in the San Francisco area, was 40 percent responsible…”

A California jury has ordered a poultry producer and a pizza restaurant franchisee to pay $2.5 million to a woman who got a chicken bone stuck in her throat. Calla Felicity, 59, told the Contra Costa Times damage from the bone has turned her from a healthy woman to someone who becomes completely exhausted after walking two blocks. She said she spent 33 days in the hospital immediately after the injury in 2010 with 11 operations and has been back in the hospital several times.

Felicity was eating a barbecued chicken pizza with her mother at a Round Table restaurant in South San Francisco when the bone got stuck.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/05/04/Woman-awarded-25M-for-chicken-bone/UPI-68391336149120/#ixzz1tvRtzM61

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