Life Partners Holdings Inc. recently admitted that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating its company’s policy or firm’s approach to how it estimates life expectancies of policyholders (which determines the amount an investor must pay to purchase the policy or product) who are…
According to ongoing investigative reports relating to medication mistakes by pharmacies nationwide, a baby nearly overdosed due to a prescription error by a Walgreens pharmacy that mistakenly mislabeled instructions on a medication label prescribed for treatment of a sinus infection to a 3-month old infant…
For a lawsuit to have the makings of a class action the first test to pass is whether the harm that was suffered was suffered by many in the same or similar way. In legal terms this is called “numerosity” and is a requirement for…
A person died from a pharmacy mistake by Walgreens when it made a dangerous prescription mistake by filling his methadone pain pills prescription with the wrong medicine label instructions for drug dosage. The victim of the Walgreens pharmacy error was a man diagnosed with neuropathy,…
A Kentucky hospital caused the death of a woman after she was given an overdose of a prescribed medication. The error was the result of the nursing staff not being unable to read the doctor’s handwriting in the patient’s chart. Rather than ask for clarification…
Pharmacy errors are much more common than Americans realize. In the U.S. alone, there are billions of prescriptions filled every year. Unfortunately, medication mistakes occur daily and affect up to 15% of all prescription medicine filled at or dispensed by hospitals, pharmacies, and/or physicians’ offices….