Eight years ago, a three-year-old girl died from E. coli after she and her family dined at a Sizzler restaurant in Milwaukee. The only problem was the little girl hadn’t eaten any of the meat. Her family’s lawyers contended that the watermelon she ate touched the tainted meat. Hundreds of other restaurant customers were sickened as well.
The case had gone to the U.S. Supreme Court which declined to hear the meat supplier’s federal preemption challenge. The settlement, for $13.5 million, was with the meat supplier, Excel, and others, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.