Our lawyers represent individuals throughout the country who have been
harmed by prescription drugs, medical devices, medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, and all other types of injury claims.
The attorneys at Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos have extensive experience in representing individuals who have been
harmed by prescription drugs and medical devices.
A 2013 article published in Forbes magazine estimates that over 1 million Americans are
harmed by prescription and over the counter drug errors and 7,000 people die yearly from this type of malpractice.
But how often do you turn on your television and see a commercial or a news story about people who have been
harmed by prescription drugs?
Not exact matches
In a Clinical Crossroads article featured in the March 6, 2013 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Dr. Dan Alford from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) suggests that
prescription opioid abuse can be minimized
by monitoring patients closely for
harm by using urine drug testing (UDT), pill counts, and reviewing
prescription drug monitoring program data when available.
Unlike dog medications (which we will get to below), these treats do not require a
prescription from your vet and also are not tested
by the FDA for
harm and benefit.
He represents those who have been injured or
harmed by sexual harassment or employment discrimination, wrongful death, vehicle accidents, work injuries, medical malpractice, defective products or
prescription drugs, mesothelioma, and other types of personal injury.
If you have been
harmed by a defective
prescription drug, faulty medical device, or medical negligence, the skilled personal injury team at Altman & Altman, LLP can help.
They are ready to help if you, or someone you love, has been killed or injured in a truck wreck, had bad side effects because of a dangerous
prescription drug,
harmed by a defective medical device like hip implants, or diagnosed with cancer as the result of exposure to asbestos.
A patient can be
harmed by medication if the doctor misdiagnoses their illness or condition, or if the doctor simply writes the wrong medication
prescription.
If you or a loved one were
harmed as a result of a medication or
prescription error, we strongly urge you to have your case reviewed
by a knowledgeable personal injury lawyer at Jacobs & Jacobs.
If you or a loved one has been
harmed by any of the above
prescription medications, or any other medication, the skilled drug injury team at Altman & Altman, LLP can help.
When the child's injuries were caused
by someone else's negligence, or
by the use of a defective product — whether a food or a toy, playground equipment or
prescription medication, or any of the other products that children encounter every day — the
harm to the child is even more difficult to bear.
This is why it is important to check
prescription label before you take medications, weigh the risks against the benefits and seek out the advice of a personal injury attorney if you suspect any negligence and have been
harmed by a drug.
A 2006 report
by the Institute of Medicine rang a loud alarm about
prescription medication errors that
harm people every day.
Increasingly, people injured
by toxic substances (including toxic molds and some
prescription drugs) are pursuing compensation for the
harm they suffered as a result.
For example, while ordinary medical mistakes
by a medical doctor such as confusing two drugs with similar names or putting the decimal point in a
prescription dosage, causing
harm to a patient, would not ordinarily result in criminal liability, coming into an operating room while too drunk to drive and without reviewing which limb of a patient needs to be amputated despite a clear indication in marker on the leg of a patient showing that fact, might constitute criminal negligence on the part of a medical doctor.