Verdicts and Settlements
$1,500,000.00
Practice Area - Medication Error
Client Injury - Birth Defects
Our client was prescribed a medication which is known to cause birth defects when given to pregnant women. Our client was in the very early stages of a pregnancy and neither the doctor nor our client knew she was pregnant. The child was born with birth defects.
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$750,000.00
Practice Area - Medication Error
Client Injury - Death
Our client was the family of a young man who died in the hospital three days after undergoing spinal fusion. His condition was stable, but a short time after receiving some pain medication, he suffered a severe reaction and died within three days. The pain medication was not administered properly, his condition was not monitored, ...
$600,000.00
Practice Area - Medication Error
Client Injury - Brain Injury
Our clients were a mother and father and their infant son. A hospital pharmacy filled a prescription for the child at 100 times the dose ordered. This resulted in a brain injury to the child. The hospital was owned by a municipality which had no insurance and relied upon the governmental immunity law to limit their exposure to $30...
$250,000.00
Practice Area - Medication Error
Client Injury - Joint Injuries from use of Prednisone
Our client was put on a regimen of Prednisone to increase the effects of chemotherapy. One of the doctors he was seeing inadvertently increased the dosage of Prednisone and ordered that he take it continuously rather than for just one week prior to chemotherapy. As a result, he suffered necrosis of some of his joints. Our client h...
$55,000.00
Practice Area - Medication Error
Client Injury - cancer-like symptoms, mental anguish
Our client, a 52 year-old woman, was diagnosed with a thyroid condition and prescribed medication by her treating physician. She filled her prescription at her local pharmacy but the pharmacy erroneously gave her a cancer drug rather than the thyroid medication. She suffered from symptoms as a result of not taking her prescr...
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Practice Area - Medication Error
Client Injury - Coma, Brain Damage, Kidney Failure
A 1-year-old boy, born with a congenital kidney disease that required him to be on dialysis, underwent a kidney transplant with his mother acting as his donor. Four days after the transplant, he suffered a cardiac arrest due to an overdose of potassium. As a result of the cardiac arrest, he was in a coma for three weeks, suffered ...
