NEW YORK A former employee of the New England Compounding Center, under scrutiny as a result of the nationwide meningitis outbreak which has claimed 15 lives to date, said questions about whether NECC was engaging in specialty compounding or was crossing over into manufacturing were actively discussed by company management as far back as 2009. The former employee, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, told CBS News that New England Compounding Center's insurance contract in 2009 "had a very clear manufacturing exclusion in their policy, " meaning the company was not covered for manufacturing, only smaller specialty compounding.