Saturday, December 1, 2012

$10 million meningitis suit filed by Moneta woman


A Moneta woman with fungal meningitis filed a lawsuit this week in Roanoke Circuit Court, as the number of local legal cases continues to mount in the deadly national outbreak blamed on tainted steroid injections.
Michelle Powell was sickened in the outbreak after being treated at Insight Imaging in Roanoke with one or more doses of the steroid injections made by New England Compounding Center, according to the complaint filed Monday. The suit, which names both the compounding center and Insight, seeks $10 million.
Powell's suit marks the 12th filed locally since the outbreak was discovered in October. All of the cases have named New England Compounding, the Massachusetts pharmacy that produced the steroid shots. And most have also sought to place blame on Insight, the Roanoke outpatient clinic that administered the shots. Spokespeople for both companies have declined to comment on the legal proceedings.
As of Monday, the outbreak has sickened 510 people in 19 states and is blamed in 36 deaths, according to the latest count by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. In Virginia, 51 cases and two deaths have been recorded
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