Court rejects claims from restaurant patron who suffered medical complications from getting bone stuck in throat
Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, a divided Ohio state supreme court ruled Thursday, rejecting claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a bone stuck in his throat.
Michael Berkheimer was dining with his wife and friends at a wing joint in Hamilton, Ohio, and had ordered the usual – boneless wings with parmesan garlic sauce – when he felt a bite-sized piece of meat go down the wrong way. Three days later, feverish and unable to keep food down, Berkeimer went to the emergency room, where a doctor discovered a long, thin bone that had torn his esophagus and caused an infection.
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