Meningitis: Judge freezes measly $5M (but not additional $461M) of owner assets. Meningitis death watch: 34

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Meningitis outbreak: Judge freezes some NECC assets

Written by

Walter F. Roche Jr.

The Tennessean

A federal judge in Boston has issued an order freezing up to $5 million in assets of the drug compounding company blamed for a nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis that has claimed at least 34 lives, including 13 in Tennessee.

In a seven-page order on Friday, U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor issued an attachment of up to $5 million against the assets of New England Compounding Center but denied a motion by lawyers for two of the victims to freeze about $461 million in assets held by the owners of the center, including two other companies and their personal residences.