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November 23, 2004

Benihana killer shrimp

This New York Law Journal article reports on the wrongful death case against Benihana that grew out of a customer's reaction to a chef's playful toss of a shrimp:

A piece of grilled shrimp flung playfully by a Japanese hibachi chef toward a tableside diner is being blamed for causing the man's death.

Making a proximate-cause argument, the lawyer for the deceased man's estate has alleged that the man's reflexive response -- to duck away from the flying food -- caused a neck injury that required surgery.

Complications from that first operation necessitated a second procedure. Five months later, [the customer] was dead of an illness that his family claims was proximately caused by the injury.

What a way to go.

Posted by Tom at November 23, 2004 6:58 AM |

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