If you or your loved one suffered an injury due to a prescription drug error, you may have a claim for compensation. A Pennsylvania prescription error lawyer at The Weitz Firm, LLC, can help you with your case.
When health care providers make preventable mistakes, our medical malpractice attorneys can hold them accountable. We have over 30 years of legal experience and have won multimillion-dollar settlements and verdicts for our clients. Let us advocate for you.
What Are Prescription Drug Errors?
Prescription errors are medication mistakes that lead to medication misuse or patient harm. These errors can cause adverse drug events (ADEs), which means any harm that results from taking a medication, including:
- Falls
- Allergic reactions
- Severe side effects
- Organ damage
- Overdoses
According to the National Library of Medicine, medication errors are the most common cause of preventable patient injuries.
If you or your loved one suffered an ADE or drug-related injury after taking a prescription, you may have a medical malpractice case. Our drug error attorneys in Pennsylvania can review your legal options with you.
Who Is Responsible for Prescription Mistakes?
Prescription errors can occur at any point in the health care process, from when a doctor first prescribes a drug to when it is administered to a patient. Common causes of prescription errors and ADEs include:
- Negligent patient monitoring
- Pharmacy or formulation errors
- Failure to fill a patient’s prescription
- Incorrect medication or dosage errors
- Failure to administer a medication to a patient
- Illegible prescriptions or drug transcription errors
- Administration of a medication to the wrong patient
- Failure to take a patient’s complete health history and account for potential interactions with current medications and health conditions
Who is at fault for a prescription mistake will depend on the exact cause of the medication error. In general, liable parties may include doctors, nurses, clinics, hospitals, residential living facilities, pharmacies, or nursing homes. Our Pennsylvania attorneys can help you identify the cause of your medication error injury and act against those responsible.
Compensation for Damages Caused by a Prescription Error
When preventable errors happen in health care settings, injured parties can seek compensation with medical malpractice claims. If you or your loved one was hurt by a medication mistake, our lawyers can help you pursue compensation for economic damages, including current and future medical expenses and lost wages, such as earnings and employment benefits from missed work, lost future income, and decreased earning capacity.
We can also help you pursue non-economic damages, or those that are less quantifiable, including severe physical pain, permanent injuries, emotional suffering, mental distress, and decreased quality of life. If a loved one passed away from these injuries, you may also be able to pursue wrongful death damages on their behalf for medical bills, funeral and burial expenses, and lost income, services, and support.
Our Pennsylvania lawyers can investigate the prescription error, gather evidence proving it resulted from provider negligence, and negotiate for the maximum insurance settlement. We will seek damages in civil court if necessary. With extensive trial experience in the state and nationwide, our attorneys are prepared to do so. However, we must file your case within the statute of limitations. According to Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure § 5524, you typically have two years from the time of injury to file.
Contact Our Pennsylvania Prescription Mistake Attorneys Today for Help
Injured parties should not have to suffer financially because of a health care provider’s mistake. If a drug error harmed you or someone you love, let a Pennsylvania prescription error lawyer from our firm fight to recover the money you need to heal. Contact The Weitz Firm, LLC, today to get help with your drug injury claim. We offer free initial consultations.
