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Georgia Appellate Court Partially Revives Medication Error Lawsuit

May 12, 2024

Background Facts Stacy McGhee filed a complaint for negligence and professional malpractice against Publix, Neighborhood Medical Associates, Inc., Nurse Practitioner Onyirmba, and Dr. Oluwole. In her complaint, McGhee alleged that she sought treatment at Neighborhood Medical on January 14, 2020 and [...]

Illinois Wrongful Death Lawsuit Alleges Physician, Walgreens Responsible For Patient’s Death Due To Toxic Amount Of Prednisone

November 5, 2023

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against a physician who prescribed a patient a toxic amount of Prednisone and against Walgreens, which filled and then refilled the erroneous Prednisone prescription, for the patient’s death allegedly due to the overdose of Prednisone. The patient report[...]

Mississippi Pharmacist Pleads Guilty To $180M Health Care Fraud Scheme

September 5, 2021

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on July 20, 2021 that a Mississippi pharmacist pleaded guilty for his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud TRICARE and private insurance companies by paying kickbacks to distributors for the referral of medically unnecessary compounded prescription[...]

Compounding Pharmacist Found Guilty In $21.8M Health Care Fraud Case

April 13, 2020

The United States Department of Justice announced on March 11, 2020 that a federal jury in Texas has found a 75-year-old pharmacist guilty of charges related to health care fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. After a six-day trial, the jury convicted the pharmacist on one count each of conspira[...]

Mississippi Supreme Court Applies Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitations To Pharmacy Misfilled Prescription Claim

April 7, 2020

The Supreme Court of Mississippi (“Mississippi Supreme Court”) stated in its decision dated March 5, 2020 that the issue before it was whether a claim asserted against a pharmacy for allegedly mis-filling a prescription is subject to the two-year professional-malpractice statute of limit[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment In Pharmacy Malpractice Case

September 16, 2016

In its decision filed on August 4, 2016, the Indiana Court of Appeals (“Appeals Court”) held that the defendant pharmacy was not entitled to summary judgment in a pharmacy malpractice case because the pharmacy was not exempted from Indiana’s Comparative Fault Act, and therefore is[...]

Missouri Pharmacy Malpractice Lawsuit Underway

February 24, 2016

On February 22, 2016, jurors were summoned to a Missouri courthouse to begin the initial process of seating a jury to hear a Missouri pharmacy malpractice lawsuit filed by the family of an elderly woman who died as a result of alleged negligence committed by a local pharmacy in filling the woman&[...]

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