Sep. 9, 2013
Written by
Walter F. Roche Jr.
The Tennessean
With a legal deadline approaching, two more federal lawsuits have been
filed by victims of the fungal meningitis outbreak who were injected a
year ago with tainted steroids at a Nashville health facility.
In a 54-page complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Nashville,
Ann Bequette of Martin charged that she contracted fungal meningitis
after being injected in the spine with methylprednisolone acetate on
Aug. 28 and Sept. 11 of last year.
She got the injections at the Saint Thomas Outpatient
Neurosurgical Center on a referral from the Howell Allen clinic, which
is part owner of the health center, according to the complaint filed by
Nashville attorney William Leader.
The suit states that she received a letter from Saint Thomas on Oct. 2 “indicating that she was at risk of contracting meningitis.”
In a second suit, also filed in Nashville, lawyers for Thomas R. Davis of McMinnville charged that he contracted fungal meningitis after a single injection on Sept. 10. Like Bequette, Davis had been treated at the Saint Thomas outpatient center on areferral from the Howell Allen Clinic.
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The suit states that she received a letter from Saint Thomas on Oct. 2 “indicating that she was at risk of contracting meningitis.”
In a second suit, also filed in Nashville, lawyers for Thomas R. Davis of McMinnville charged that he contracted fungal meningitis after a single injection on Sept. 10. Like Bequette, Davis had been treated at the Saint Thomas outpatient center on a
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