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Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton filed two lawsuits on April 4, 2011 in the Meds IV case.

A Wrongful Death suit has been filed on behalf of Donald Mottern, as Administrator of the Estate of Lavonne Mottern, deceased. The defendants in the case are Meds IV, LLC, Edward Anthony Cingoranelli, William T. Rogers, David Allen and Baptist Health Systems, Inc. d/b/a BMC - Princeton Medical Center.

A Personal Injury suit has been filed on behalf of Todd Hammond. The defendants in the case are Meds IV, LLC, Edward Anthony Cingoranelli, William T. Rogers, David Allen and Select Specialty Hospital - Birmingham.

Hare Wynn is investigating additional cases and more lawsuits could be filed later this week.

The outbreak began in late January and was identified on March 16 when two hospitals reported unusual cases of bacteria among high-risk patients. The patients who received the solution were already very sick, and as of Tuesday, March 27, 10 of the surviving patients infected with the bacteria were still hospitalized.

A total of 19 patients in the six hospitals were confirmed to be infected, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health, which asked for help from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The hospitals are Baptist Princeton, Baptist Shelby, Baptist Prattville, Medical West, Cooper Green Mercy and Select Specialty Hospital. According to a statement from the Alabama Department of Public Health, of all of the patients who were treated in March, 2001 via the TPN intravenous feeding solution, 35% became ill.

According to Dr. Mary McIntyre, a physician with the Alabama Department of Public Health, it will be late Wednesday (April 6, 2011) or Thursday before it is determined if bacteria found in a Birmingham pharmacy that supplied contaminated intravenous feeding bags matches organisms linked to the infection outbreak.