An E. coli case was filed in Yellowstone County District Court last week.

A woman ate food she bought at the McDonald’s on Southgate Drive in Billings and then got sick.

The McDonald’s E. coli outbreak that hit 13 states across the country also hit Montana.

Thirteen cases have been reported, including eight in Yellowstone County, and now trials have begun.

Billings resident Candina Craft says she ate a quarter pounder on September 29th.

According to court documents, she had loss of appetite, nausea, abdominal pain and cramps.

Eight days later, he went to the emergency room, where a CT scan revealed wall thickening and inflammation of the colon.

“The injuries that we see in these situations can be quite serious,” said Drew Falkenstein, Craft’s attorney. “They can be catastrophic and life-changing.”

Falkenstein represents Craft and other Montana victims, including a father and his 11-month-old daughter who shared a hamburger at McDonald’s in Belgrade.

The baby was hospitalized for more than a week.

Falkenstein’s firm, Seattle-based Marler Clark, has filed 19 lawsuits against McDonald’s, four in Montana.

“We represent several families in northwestern Montana, in the Kalispell area, who had a family member die as a result of their illnesses in the McDonald’s outbreak,” Falkenstein said. “The cases filed in Gallatin and Yellowstone counties fortunately do not involve this outcome.”

Craft’s lawsuit against McDonald’s says she remains thin, sensitive to certain foods and has not regained her appetite.

Federal investigators identified cut onions from Taylor Farms in Colorado as the source of the outbreak.

Those onions were sent to about 900 McDonald’s restaurants.

“Their responsibilities are that if they detect it on some sort of product sampling, which it might have been in this case, then their obligation is obviously not to distribute that product,” Falkenstein said.

The lawsuits allege four counts, including two counts of negligence.

Falkenstein’s firm specializes in food safety cases and now represents more than a dozen victims across the country, and the number is expected to grow.

“I’m sure we’ll be contacted by people over the next few months,” Falkenstein said.

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