Lawsuit of Virginia man’s meningitis death settled

The family of Douglas Wingate, a Salem man who died of meningitis, has settled a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against a clinic in Roanoke, Insight Imagining. Wingate’s family sued the clinic in December 2012 while claiming Wingate died in September 2012 after being injected with a steroid shot tainted with meningitis. The lawsuit also claimed that the clinic told patients they were receiving safe, name-brand drugs instead of generic substitutes. Insight did not admit liability in the settlement petition. Including Wingate, there were 64 people in 20 states who died during a meningitis outbreak. After being linked to the outbreak, a Massachusetts pharmacy forfeited their license when they became swamped with lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy.