{"id":442464,"date":"2010-03-18T09:51:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutlawsuits.com\/?p=8857"},"modified":"2010-03-18T09:51:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:51:45","slug":"walgreens-medication-error-verdict-of-33m-upheld-on-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/442464","title":{"rendered":"Walgreens Medication Error Verdict of $33M Upheld on Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A $33.3 million verdict awarded in a wrongful death lawsuit against Walgreens pharmacy over a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youhavealawyer.com\/malpractice\/prescription-error-medication-mistake.html\">medication error<\/a> has been upheld on appeal by a Florida court.\u00a0 <span id=\"more-8857\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutlawsuits.com\/topics\/pharmacy\/\">pharmacy malpractice lawsuit<\/a> was filed by the family of Beth Hippely, who died in January 2007. According to a report in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theledger.com\/article\/20100301\/NEWS\/100309974\/1410?Title=Appeals-Court-Upholds-Mulberry-Family-s-33-3-Million-Wrongful-Death-Suit&amp;tc=ar\" >The Ledger<\/a>, Hippely\u2019s family sued Walgreens, alleging that a teenaged pharmacy technician accidentally gave her a blood thinner dosage that was ten times more powerful than she had been prescribed.<\/p>\n<p>The drug, Warfarin, had been prescribed to Hippely since 2002 as part of her breast cancer treatment. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutlawsuits.com\/topics\/pharmacy-error\/\">pharmacy error<\/a>\u00a0caused her to suffer a cerebral hemorrhage and paralysis before her death.<\/p>\n<p>A Florida jury ruled in the family\u2019s favor at trial for the wrongful death lawsuit in August 2007, awarding the $33.3 million, but Walgreen\u2019s appealed the verdict. Last month, the 2nd District Court of Appeals in Lakeland, Florida affirmed the lower court\u2019s decision and upheld the verdict and the award.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2006 report by the National Academies of Science\u2019s Institute of Medicine, there are about 1.5 million <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youhavealawyer.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/hospital-medication-mistakes\/\">medication errors every year<\/a> which result in injuries. These mistakes are largely preventable and could be caused by a doctor prescribing the medication incorrectly, the pharmacy filling the wrong dosage or by nurses dispensing a different patient\u2019s drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $33.3 million verdict awarded in a wrongful death lawsuit against Walgreens pharmacy over a medication error has been upheld on appeal by a Florida court.\u00a0 The pharmacy malpractice lawsuit was filed by the family of Beth Hippely, who died in January 2007. According to a report in The Ledger, Hippely\u2019s family sued Walgreens, alleging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}