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14 Indicted In Connection With NECC Fungal Meningitis Outbreak

December 20, 2014

According to a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, a 131-count criminal indictment was unsealed on December 17, 2014 in connection with the 2012 nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak traced back to the New England Compounding Center (“NECC”). The owner/head pharmac[...]

Pharmacy Held Liable For Pharmacist’s Disclosure Of Customer’s Prescription Records

November 18, 2014

By its decision dated November 14, 214, the Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Appeals Court”) affirmed a $1.8 million verdict in favor of a customer of Walgreen Company (Walgreen’s) whose personal, private prescription history was viewed and disclosed by one of its pharmacy employees[...]

Virginia Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settled For Fungal Meningitis Death

February 9, 2014

A man suffering from back pain received contaminated steroids at a Roanoke clinic and died as a result of fungal meningitis. His family has now settled for an undisclosed sum the medical malpractice lawsuit that they had filed in December 2012 and that had sought $25 million in damages. The man ha[...]

New York Supreme Court Holds Pharmacist Not Liable For Filling Prescription Precisely As Directed

October 27, 2013

In a case decided by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department (“New York Supreme Court”) on October 4, 2013, the New York Supreme Court held that a pharmacist cannot be held liable for negligence in the absence of an allegation that he o[...]

Georgia Pharmacy Malpractice Case Filed

October 24, 2013

A federal lawsuit seeking damages in the amount of $750,000 has been filed in Georgia on behalf of a now 9-year-old girl who allegedly suffered injuries as a result of a Georgia pharmacy’s labeling mistake regarding the dosage of the child’s medication, leading to the child being given [...]

Hospital Pharmacist Malpractice

August 29, 2013

Hospital pharmacists are not immune to medical malpractice claims. Such claims may involve the wrong medication being dispensed (especially if the drugs have similar sounding names), the wrong dosage of the drug (such as filling a prescription for 10 ml of a drug when the prescribed dosage was 0.[...]

Tennessee Compounding Pharmacy Recalls Products, Contamination Found In Two Batches

June 11, 2013

The FDA announced on June 6, 2013 that it has identified bacterial and fungal growth in samples from two unopened vials of preservative-free (“PF”) methylprednisolone acetate (“MPA”) 80 mg/mL, 10mL vials manufactured by Tennessee-based Main Street Family Pharmacy, LLC ([...]

Alabama Lawsuit Alleges Permanent Injuries From NECC’s Contaminated Steroid

June 8, 2013

As part of the continuing fallout from allegedly contaminated steroid injections manufactured by the New England Compounding Company (“NECC”), an Alabama woman has filed a lawsuit against NECC and a local Alabama hospital in which she claims that she received contaminated steroid inje[...]

Pennsylvania Nursing Home Fined For Drug Problems

January 27, 2013

A nursing home in Pennsylvania was fined $1,950 by the State of Pennsylvania for its alleged failure to effectively manage and maintain pharmaceutical services for its residents. The nursing home blamed its out-of-state pharmacy provider for the deficiencies and promptly contracted with another phar[...]

Medication Mistake Leads To Illinois Medical Malpractice Claim

January 5, 2013

On January 2, 2013, a medical malpractice claim was filed in Illinois against a nursing home in which it is alleged that medication mistakes led to a resident’s death. The medical malpractice lawsuit claims that the wrong dosage of medication and the improper combination of medications by two [...]

FDA Shuts Down More Than 18,000 Illegal Internet Pharmacy Websites

December 30, 2012

Between September 25 and October 2, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), in cooperation and coordination with international law enforcement and regulatory agencies in 100 countries, shut down more than 18,000 illegal Internet pharmacy websites operated by more than 4,100[...]

Maryland Lyme Disease Case: Pharmacy Held Responsible For Improper Doxycycline Instructions

December 11, 2012

On October 25, 2000, an infectious disease specialist diagnosed his patient with Lyme disease and gave her a prescription for doxycycline, a Tetracycline-based drug commonly prescribed for the treatment of Lyme disease. The specialist informed the patient that while taking doxycycline she cou[...]

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