Brookfield Family Settles Lawsuit With Spinach Companies
A family in southeastern Wisconsin is finally getting closure, a year after their kids got severely sick after eating tainted spinach.A lawyer for Neil and Anne Grintjes (GRIN’-chiz) says they’ve reached a tentative agreement with four California companies involved in producing and packaging spinach.
Details of the settlement were secret, but in court documents filed last year, lawyers for the family asked for more than $75,000 plus court costs.
Attorney William Marler says his clients are pleased at the settlement, which still has to be approved by a judge.
The outbreak was traced to Natural Selection Foods. More than 200 people got sick and three people died, including a Manitowoc woman.