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Monday, July 29, 2013

Jul 29, 2013, 6:45am EDT Judge in NECC Says victims Can Sue Health Care Providers

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A U.S. bankruptcy judge has cleared the way for victims in the deadly meningitis outbreak that originated in a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy to sue the health care facilities and providers who prescribed the tainted steroids at the center of the controversy.
According to Reuters.com, there were approximately 65 health care providers and doctors in Tennessee who were included on the customer list of the now-insolvent New England Compounding Center in Framingham. The pharmacy and its affiliates stand accused of shoddy operating practices and other regulatory violations that led to the alleged shipment of fungus-tainted steroids to health care providers throughout the country.
The Reuters report said U.S. BankruptcyJudge Henry J. Boroff on July 24 declared NECC insolvent, meaning Tennessee victims can file product-liability claims against medical providers who prescribed the steroids that led to the meningitis outbreak. The newswire said that without the insolvency declaration, the victims would only have been able to pursue professional or medical negligence claims, according to Tennessee law.
The meningitis outbreak has resulted in 15 deaths and 153 meningitis-related cases in Tennessee, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The outbreak was detected late last year and resulted in a firestorm of legal and civil suits filed against NECC, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection shortly after the outbreak made national headlines.
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