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Utah Supreme Court Rejects Learned Intermediary Rule In Malpractice Claim Against Pharmacy

November 12, 2025

Steven Jensen suffered from severe chronic pain and took oxycodone for many years to manage his condition. After Jensen went to his doctor seeking help for an unrelated ailment, his doctor prescribed an additional drug, clonazepam. When taken together, oxycodone and clonazepam can pose serious healt[...]

$300K Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Priest Given Wrong Medication By Hospital Pharmacy

June 26, 2025

Father Augustine Njuu, a Catholic priest, had been a long-time patient of Mercy Pharmacy Services and had a documented allergy to Lisinopril. According to the priest’s Missouri medical malpractice lawyer, “In 2022, Njuu’s primary care physician called in a refill order of a medication [...]

Georgia Appellate Court Partially Revives Pharmacy Malpractice Case

August 4, 2024

Stacy McGee filed a complaint against Publix Supermarkets and Dr. Olujimi Oluwole for professional malpractice to recover for injuries she sustained after being prescribed a medication that she was allergic to. The trial court granted Publix’s motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to file an[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Remands Pharmacy Malpractice Case Claiming Negligence In Filling Excessive Amounts Of Addictive Medications

December 26, 2023

Plaintiff George Shamy was the father of Deanna D. Shamy. In 2017, Deanna died from an overdose of prescription medications. Two years after her death, George, individually and as administrator of Deanna’s estate, sued fourpharmacies he alleged negligently filled Deanna’s prescriptions f[...]

U.S. Expands Efforts To Fight Opioid Epidemic To Unscrupulous Dispensing Pharmacies

February 22, 2019

The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed on February 8, 2019 a civil complaint filed in the Middle District of Tennessee against two pharmacies, their owner, and three pharmacists, to stop them from dispensing controlled substance medications, including powerful opioids that have been linked to abuse[...]

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[...]

Internet Pharmacy Doctor’s Criminal Charge Dismissed Due To Too Much Evidence

August 29, 2012

During early August, 2012, a Miami doctor who was indicted in 2007 for allegedly selling prescription drugs to patients who were never interviewed or examined had his criminal indictment dismissed with prejudice by a federal judge in Iowa, at the request of the federal prosecutors, because of th[...]

Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Methadone Overdose

April 17, 2012

Earlier this month, a medical malpractice jury in Maine deliberated for less than two hours before unanimously awarding a woman compensatory damages in the amount of $1,912,934 for her alleged brain damage caused by her doctor over-prescribing methadone that resulted in her experiencing an episode[...]

Avoiding Medication Mistakes

September 16, 2011

The names of common prescription medications may be hard to spell as well as pronounce. How do the drug companies come up with the names of their drugs? Why can’t they make the names easy to remember and easy to spell? Why can’t the names of the drugs help to remind patients what they ar[...]

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