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Trustee Selected in Peanut Corporation Bankruptcy

By PritzkerLaw

The U.S. Trustee has appointed a trustee in the bankruptcy/liquidation of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), the company responsible for a nationwide Salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 642 people and killed nine.

The trustee is Ron Creasy of Roanoke, Va. He told Reuters news agency that he is currently focused on securing the company's facilities and getting his arms around its financial accounts. Soon, he said, he'll start to evaluate insurance claims. The Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings will take place in the Western District of Virginia.

"We're going to have to work out the insurance claims and insurance proceeds for all the people that are injured and what other parties might try to make claims against the company,'' Creasy told Reuters.

PCA is the defendant in apeanut butter wrongful death lawsuit filed byPritzkerOlsen Attorneys, a national food safety firm that represents clients including the families of three women who died in the outbreak. The firm is representing victims of the outbreak nationwide and one of our clients has testified before a panel in Congress on the need for greater food safety regulation.

To contact a peanut butter Salmonella lawyer at the firm call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free) or submit a free Salmonella consultation form.

Full post as published by Food Poisoning Law Blog on February 18, 2009 (boomark / email).