A group representing victims of a deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak has sticker shock over the bill submitted by a bankruptcy trustee who tracked down funds to pay them, Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported today. The plaintiffs' steering committee, which represents 322 claimants in a multidistrict case against New England Compounding Center, is asking a bankruptcy court to write down the $3.75 million fee for the services of trustee Paul D. Moore and his law firm Duane Morris LLP , saying that no one agreed to pay so much. For three years, Moore has served as the bankruptcy trustee administering the chapter 11 case of NECC, a compounding pharmacy that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said caused the death of at least 64 people and sickened more than 750 others with tainted steroid injections.
