Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Suit names new outbreak victim Six more suits filed Sep. 10, 2013 5:34


A 72-year-old retired autoworker from Crossville, who loved nature and NASCAR, has been identified for the first time as one of the Tennessee patients who died in the nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak.
A suit filed by his family in U.S. District Court in Nashville identifies the victim as Dallas Ray Nealon, who died on Dec. 9, 2012.
The suit was one of six new complaints filed this week as a one-year deadline looms under state product and health care liability statutes. The outbreak was first made public by state and federal officials in early October 2012.

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