Dallas Dangerous Drug Injury Attorney

Dangerous Drugs and Personal Injury Cases

When one is prescribed a medication to resolve or alleviate a condition, it is not expected that illness or a serious injury will be the result. Many drugs on the market are later proven to have deadly side effects and are subsequently pulled off the shelves when enough people have suffered illness or lost their lives or other severe damage. It is frightening to consider that the FDA may have allowed a dangerous medication onto the market. The testing procedures that were used by the pharmaceutical firm may have been flawed or evidence of serious side effects may have actually been suppressed before release of the drug or medication. In other cases a medication could have been wrongly prescribed, or in the wrong amount resulting in injury or illness. In any dangerous drug injury case, it is critical that you have the support of a skilled Dallas personal injury attorney to provide legal representation in drafting and filing a comprehensive lawsuit against those liable.

Dangerous Drug Injury Lawyer in Dallas

There have been a number of medications recently removed from the market, and others that are under attack for their serious side effects and have not yet been pulled. These include medications such as Paxil which has been linked to brain damage and other very serious damages in babies when mothers were on the drug while pregnant. Other dangerous drugs that have been reported to have caused severe damages include Yaz/Yasmin, Hydroxycut, Celebrex and a multitude of others. Some over the counter medications have been found to be corrupted and dangerous if consumed, and are subsequently recalled. This only occurs after many individuals have already suffered from illness, injury or wrongful death.

If you have been prescribed a medication that caused damages, it is vital that you have representation from our personal injury team in order to assist you with the legal matters that must be addressed. There could be several liable parties including the doctor, medical facility, pharmaceutical company or others named in the suit filed on your behalf. Such cases are often emotionally difficult, as the victim has been seriously damaged through the use of a dangerous drug. Seeking maximum compensation for damages is recommended as a course of action as the pain and suffering is immeasurable in such cases.