date:May 14, 2014
Walmart Stores Inc. has settled 23 civil cases linked to Listeria-tainted cantaloupe it sold from Jensen Farms in Colorado. There are still 40 civil cases pending, which were filed by Walmart customers or relatives of customers who died in the 2011 outbreak.
Bill Marler, a food safety attorney with Marler Clark, represents 46 of the 66 people who filed lawsuits in the aftermath of the outbreak.
Details of the settlements between Walmart and plaintiffs in the 23 civil cases were not released, a