Jury Awards Money For Wrong Prescription
A Florida jury awarded $25.8 million to the family of a cancer patient who was given a wrong prescription at Walgreens pharmacy. The woman, Beth Hippely, had a stroke and died several years later.She was prescribed a blood thinner, Warfarin, in 2002 to treat breast cancer. Walgreens pharmacy dispensed 10 times the dosage her doctor ordered.
Apparently, a young pharmacy tech, with little training, misfilled the prescription.
Our firm has handled several cases involving dispensing errors made by pharmacies including errors that have led to death.
This was posted
on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 and is filed in the General categories.
