The federal judge presiding over litigation involving a multistate fungal meningitis outbreak has once again ordered the transfer to federal court of several Virginia state-court cases.
The now-bankrupt New England Compounding Center produced an injectable steroid that became infected with fungus and led to a fatal breakout of meningitis. In an apparent case of first impression within the U.S. Circuit of Appeals for the First Circuit, U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel on Thursday granted a bankruptcy trustee’s motion to transfer almost 30 Virginia cases in which almost 130 plaintiffs have sued health care providers that administered the steroid as the sole defendants.
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