A 46-year-old Howell woman has filed what is believed
to be the first lawsuit in Michigan stemming from this month’s meningitis
outbreak.
Attorneys for Brenda Bansale field suit Monday in U.S.
District Court in Detroit seeking damages from New England Compounding Pharmacy,
Inc. the Massachusetts-based company whose recalled steroid products are linked
to the outbreak.
Bansale received a steroid injection at Michigan Pain
specialists in Genoa Township on Aug. 28.
“She became ill on Oct. 4,” said her attorney Allyson
Oliver of The Oliver Law Group of Rochester, who filed the class action suit on
Bansale’s behalf.
Oliver said her client remains hospitalized at Saint
Joseph Mercy Hospital in Washtenaw County with a confirmed case of fungal
meningitis.
Oliver described her client as a homemaker.
“She had just completed her associate’s degree and was
really happy about that when she took ill,” Oliver said.
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