TRAVERSE CITY, MI — Life has become a lot more challenging for Theresa Hall.
Since receiving a contaminated steroid injection last September, Hall has been in and out of the hospital, battling Fungal Meningitis.
“My life, as I knew it, went straight down the tubes,” says Theresa. “My medications alone are $12,000 a month…its like $200,000 that we have paid out,”
The CDC reports 17 people from the state have died, including three who received treatment in Indiana.
Theresa and others have hired attorneys to represent them.
A Traverse City based firm, Dingeman, Dancer and Christopherson, is handling 40 cases.
“They went to a doctor seeking treatment that was supposed to help their pain. What they got was basically poison injected into them,” said attorney, Dan Myers.
The so called “poison” was a steroid manufactured by New England Compounding Center in Boston.
The company placed a voluntary recall on their products in September.
Since then, the company has filed for bankruptcy.
“What is happening is, because all these cases are related, they will be ultimately coordinated in some fashion. The entity that is going to do that coordination is the federal court out of Boston. Why is that? Because the New England Compounding Center filed bankruptcy there, they are based there,” said attorney, Mark Dancer.
Dancer says millions of dollars of the company’s assets have already been frozen.
Chad D. Engelhardt, Attorney & Partner based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a distinguished trial lawyer and patient safety advocate. He represents clients in complex medical malpractice, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death cases. Admitted to the Michigan Bar, Chad combines over a decade of law enforcement experience with nearly two decades of litigation practice to promote accountability and justice for injured individuals statewide.
