Written by
Walter F. Roche Jr.
The Tennessean
A $15 million lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court by the widow of Kentucky Circuit Judge Eddie C. Lovelace, the first known local victim of a fungal meningitis outbreak blamed on a defunct Massachusetts drug compounder.
The 54-page complaint filed late Thursday charges negligence, violations of the state product and health liability laws and civil conspiracy. Defendants include the owners of the defunct compounding firm and the Saint Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgical Center, where Lovelace was injected with a spinal steroid three times.
The filing, just days before the one-year anniversary of the 78-year-old Kentucky judge’s death, comes as state and federal officials raised by one the official death toll from the outbreak among Tennessee patients from 15 to 16.
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