According to a report of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, released on the eve of their November 14, 2012 hearings, “Documents produced to the Committee by the FDA and the Massachusetts Board show that NECC has a long history of very similar, if not...
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Total Meningitis Cases Climbs to 363
The CDC reported the death toll from the contaminated epidural meningitis outbreak has risen to 28 people as of October 30, 2012. The number of fungal meningitis cases reported across the USA has risen to 363. Nineteen of the 23 states that received shipments have...
NECC Shipped Steroids BEFORE It Had Sterility Results
One of the procedures to be followed by NECC was to ensure that its products passed sterility tests before they were shipped. According to Dr. Madeleine Biondolillo of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, in at least one case, NECC shipped...
1279 Clinics Used Contaminated Steroids from NECC
As of October 23, 2012 the death toll from the bacterial meningitis outbreak linked to the New England Compounding Company’s steroid treatment has risen to 23 in sixteen states and people with bacterial fungal meningitis has risen to 297. On October 22, 2012 the FDA...
FDA Links Contaminated Steroids Meningitis to two other NECC drugs.
As of October 16, 2012 the contaminated steroid catastrophe had claimed 19 lives and sickened 247 people in 15 states. The FDA has now linked two other medicines to this outbreak, a steroid shot and a heart surgery drug, all of which were made at the New England...
The FDA Had No Authority to Regulate the Pharmacy that Produced the Contaminated Steroids
Many now know of the dangerous outbreak of fungal meningitis from contaminated steroid injections produced by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) and are asking why this happened. The answer is not so simple. As a compounding pharmacy, NECC mixes drugs at their...
Four California Clinics Identified as Receiving Contaminated Steroids
More information has become available about clinics in California that may be involved in the meningitis outbreak. The Ukiah Valley Medical Center, Sequoia Surgery Center in Visalia, Encino Outpatient Surgical Center, and Universal Pain Management in Palmdale have...
Contaminated Steroid Injections Lead to Meningitis
Contaminated steroid injections from the New England Compounding Company have claimed the lives of eight people and injured scores more who have been diagnosed with fungal meningitis. The injections were given between July 2012 and September 2012. 17,676 potentially...
Tom Brandi Honored as Plaintiff’s Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers
Congratulations are in due to Tom Brandi, who has been named Best Lawyers' 2013 San Francisco Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs "Lawyer of the Year". Only a single lawyer in each practice area in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year". ...
More than 130 RSRs Have Joined the Current Hershey Overtime Suit as the July 13th Deadline Approaches
In the first Hershey overtime case (Campanelli vs Hershey), 120 current and former RSRs joined the litigation, and they all participated in the settlement that was reached. In the current litigation, more than 130 current and former RSRs have already joined the suit...