Chipotle Mexican Grill settled nearly 100 legal cases brought by customers sickened in last year’s foodborne illness outbreak. Terms were not disclosed. Except for one: One client asked for “free-burrito” coupons as part of her settlement.

“In 25 years of doing foodborne illness cases, I’ve never had a client ask for coupons for the restaurant they had gotten sick at,” said William Marler, an attorney with Seattle-based Marler Clark who represented 97 Chipotle customers. “In fact, some (clients) had gone back to the restaurant and they would call me and say, ‘Do you think it’s bad that I went back and got a burrito?’ ”

Marler said Chipotle financially settled 96 cases between March and last week. One case is still pending because it is more complex. The cases were a mix of customers sickened from the E. coli, salmonella and norovirus outbreaks in cities nationwide, including Boston, Minneapolis and Simi Valley, Calif.

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In the resolved cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed contamination results through medical tests, Marler said.

“Those cases get resolved because there’s nothing to argue about,” he said. “That makes it easier, to be candid, for Chipotle to look at them and say, ‘Wow. An independent entity confirmed it.’ ”

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Chris Arnold, spokesman for Denver-based Chipotle, confirmed that cases were settled over the last several months.

“We opted to settle them simply because we thought it was the right thing to do for those customers,” Arnold said.

According to a special Chipotle web page about its food safety incidents, 510 customers were sickened last year.

The outbreaks began in August 2015, when 243 customers reported getting sick with norovirus after eating at the Chipotle in Simi Valley. In December, another 143 customers reported getting sick from norovirus after eating at a Boston Chipotle. In both cases, the illness was “likely caused by a Chipotle employee who worked while sick, in violation of strict policies designed to discourage this.”

Salmonella cases cropped up at restaurants in Minnesota and Wisconsin, sickening 64 people in August 2015. Chipotle linked the illness to tomatoes served at 22 restaurants.

And between October to November 2015, another 60 people reported getting sick with E. coli 026 in 11 states. Some 3,000 tests were conducted by a Chipotle food-safety partner, which found no E. coli in food or restaurant surfaces. But by the time the tests were done, the E. coli was likely already gone from restaurants because of the lag time of up to 10 days between contamination and the first symptoms.

Chipotle responded with closing affected restaurants temporarily to clean the entire facility, and for part of one day on Feb. 8, it closed all restaurants to discuss food-safety changes with employees nationwide. Co-CEO Steve Ells also publicly apologized to customers and pledged to tighten the chain’s food-safety procedures.

But that didn’t stop the lawsuits. Besides the consumer cases, the chain was being investigated for criminal violations. A federal lawsuit by Chipotle shareholders in August accused company executives of failing to implement quality-control measures to prevent and stop food-bourne illnesses.

The company’s stock traded at $430.70 on Friday, down 1.3 percent, and lower than its 52-week high of $757 last October.

Marler said he hasn’t heard of other sick-Chipotle customer cases. He believes that based on the restaurant’s loyal following, many customers went straight to Chipotle instead of a lawyer. You just don’t often find customers like his 19-year-old client who after recovering from being hospitalized for a few days told him, “the one thing I want is free burritos and I’m like what? She wanted me to ask for her because (she said) ‘I really love Chipotle and want to go back.’ ”

And she wasn’t alone. While none of his other clients specifically asked for coupons, “a lot of them were getting them,” he said.

“They have a following of especially 20-somethings that other restaurants don’t have,” Marler said. “It’s a little odd, but it probably says something positive about Chipotle.