Judge: Insurer Has No Duty To Defend, Indemnify Suits Over Contaminated Medication

Mealey's (April 13, 2017, 2:49 PM EDT) -- SOUTH BEND, Ind. — An Indiana federal judge on March 31 entered a judgment in favor of an insurer, declaring that it has no duty to defend or indemnify its insureds against underlying lawsuits and medical malpractice complaints stemming from a multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis, lumbar fungal infections and related injuries as a result of patients receiving injections of contaminated epidural steroid medication for pain management (Westfield Insurance Co v. Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center of Northern Indiana, Inc., et al.,  No. 14-1548, N.D. Ind., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 46119)....