ConAgra Foods, Inc. v. Lexington Insurance

RIDGELY, Justice,

for the Majority:

This case arises from the alleged contamination in 2007 of certain Peter Pan® and Great Value® peanut butter products that Plaintiff-Below/Appellant, ConAgra Foods, Inc. (“ConAgra”), manufactured at its Sylvester, Georgia plant site. The Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) informed ConAgra that it suspected a link between a certain strain of salmonella and those peanut butter products. Thereafter, Con-Agra announced a voluntary, nationwide recall of all its peanut butter products. But, some of the peanut butter products reached consumers, and many of those…