Meningitis suit seeks freeze of pharmacy owners’ assets

BOSTON (Reuters) – Patients exposed to a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak are suing to freeze the personal assets of executives at the New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy whose injectable steroids have been linked to 20 deaths and over 250 cases of infection. Peter McGrath, a former federal prosecutor, said he was spear heading a civil case that alleges Massachusetts-based NECC and company officers Barry and Lisa Cadden and Greg Conigliaro are responsible for the tainted drugs. …