Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Meningitis Outbreak Suits Centralized In Massachusetts By Emily Field


Law360, New York (February 09, 2015, 5:12 PM ET) -- The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Friday centralized two cases stemming from a deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak caused by tainted steroid injections distributed by now-bankrupt New England Compounding Center in the district court of Massachusetts.

The panel transferred the two cases to multidistrict litigation over the outbreak that killed 64 people, over the objections of a number of anonymous Indiana health care providers, saying that the suits would benefit from discovery and coordination with the bankruptcy case. The panel rejected the health care providers’...
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