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February 14, 2014 Drug manufacturers have a responsibility to ensure their products are safe. Failure to do so can result in costly penalties and civil litigation being filed against the responsible parties. One such case stems from the thousands of steroid injections distributed by a Massachusetts compounding center that contained a fungus which sickened hundreds and claimed the lives of...
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November 22, 2013 Last year, 153 Tennesseans were sickened by contaminated steroid injections manufactured by a compounding pharmacy. Investigators later determined that a gap between state and federal law had allowed the defective medications to make their way onto the market. The Nashville Meningitis Outbreak Lawyers with Ponce Law state that legislators addressed the issue recently by passing a bill...
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October 9, 2013 Drug manufacturers are required by law to ensure the safety of the products they release. Failure to do so can result in the drug company facing massive and costly recalls, as well as claims of liability through civil litigation filed on behalf of those harmed. Hundreds of cases have been filed in connection with a fungal meningitis...
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October 2, 2013 Contaminated steroid injections were to blame for a fungal meningitis outbreak that sickened hundreds people and claimed dozens of lives. However, the Nashville Meningitis Outbreak Lawyers with Ponce Law point out it seems it may take time for victims to receive restitution. An article published in The Boston Globe explains the hold up is determining liability in...
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September 13, 2013 The Nashville Meningitis Outbreak Lawyers with Ponce Law explain that victims are frantically beginning to file lawsuits as the one-year anniversary of contaminated injections that led to the deaths of dozens of patients and sickened hundreds approaches. In fact, more than a dozen complaints have been filed in the past eleven days. An article published by The...
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A ruling by a U.S. bankruptcy judge late last month allows Tennessee victims of last year's deadly meningitis outbreak to pursue a new avenue of litigation against doctors and healthcare facilities in the state. Tennessee had the second highest number of fungal meningitis cases, after Michigan, in an outbreak that has injured or killed more than 700 people across the...
