Australia:
A second bite for KFC: salmonella poisoning
17 December 2012
Hall & Wilcox
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In our June 2012 edition of
Insurable Interest we reported on a decision by the New South
Wales Supreme Court that a young girl sustained salmonella
poisoning from eating KFC chicken. As anticipated, this decision
has now been appealed and it will be fascinating to see what the
Court of Appeal makes of the relatively inconclusive evidence.
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