Did a Medication Error Cause Serious Injury or Death? Contact a Minnesota Attorney of Rischmiller & Knippel LLP
The occurrence of medication errors may be a factor of statistical probability. The sheer number of prescriptions that are written in our country each day, each week, each month and each year is staggering. Perhaps it is no wonder, then, that occasional mistakes occur. Liability for medication errors may be found in any of the following:
- The drug manufacturer may have labeled or manufactured the medication with defects.
- The prescribing physician may have failed to screen a patient for allergies or other contra-indications.
- A pharmacist or pharmacist's assistant may have made a mistake in dispensing the drug.
- A facility such as a hospital or nursing home may have failed to properly administer medications. Nursing home neglect may have included failure to ensure that a resident actually ingested a prescribed medication.
- Overmedication may have taken place in an emergency room.
- Anesthesia errors during surgery may have had devastating consequences.
Sadly enough, our attorneys see quite a few very significant medication error cases. Sometimes the results are catastrophic: the patient is brain damaged, has a heart attack soon thereafter or otherwise suffers harm that should not have happened.
Contact a Well-Respected Minneapolis Medical Malpractice Lawyer
Our attorneys receive numerous referrals from other law firms throughout the upper Midwest. We represent people who suffered hypoxia injuries, serious allergic reactions and heart attacks as a result of medication mistakes. We advocate on behalf of medication error victims and their families. Contact us to schedule a consultation at our Minneapolis law offices or in any mutually convenient location.
