Walgreens Lawsuit:
Wrong Medication, Wrong Drug, Prescription Error

The following Walgreens lawsuit information is provided by Pritzker Olsen, a nationally-recognized law firm. Attorneys Fred Pritzker, Elliot Olsen and Eric Hageman have been named "Super Lawyers" by Law & Politics magazine (current and previous years). Fred Pritzker has also been selected for inclusion in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America. To contact a prescription error attorney at the firm regarding a Walgreens prescription error lawsuit, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll-free), e-mail our attorneys, or submit our free case review form.

Recent Pharmacy Error Settlement
Pritzker Olsen law firm has recently settled a wrongful death case where we alleged that the pharmacy compounded a drug to be 10 times the prescribed dose. Contact us regarding pharmacy error lawsuits. This was not a case against Walgreens.

With monthly sales in the billions, Walgreens is one of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains. Pharmacies owe patients filling prescriptions a duty of care. When that duty is breached and that breach causes harm to the patient, a pharmacy is liable for damages, meaning the pharmacy has to compensate the patient and/or the patient’s family for the resulting injuries or death. Read about pharmacy and pharmacist malpractice.

Walgreens Prescription Error Lawsuits

Pharmacy errors can happen when the wrong dose of a prescription is given, when the wrong medication is given and in other circumstances. The following are examples of Walgreens lawsuits¹:

Walgreens Lawsuit: $25.8 Million for Wrong Dose
A jury found that a Walgreens pharmacist gave a patient blood-thinner medication 10 times stronger than her doctor had prescribed. Jurors concluded the error caused the 42-year-old patient to suffer a serious stroke. The $25,800,000 verdict was upheld by upheld by the Court of Appeals.²

Walgreens Lawsuit: Alleged Toxic Drug Interaction
A jury found that a Walgreens pharmacist failed to counsel a patient about the danger of simultaneously taking two drugs, methadone and tramadol, and failed to double-check the prescription with the patient’s doctor. The patient died of a toxic drug interaction.

Walgreens Lawsuit: Alleged Wrong Medication
A jury found that a Walgreens pharmacist gave a patient the wrong medication, allegedly causing kidney failure and the eventual death of the patient. The pharmacist admitted he had been abusing prescription pain killers.

Walgreens Lawsuit: Alleged Wrong Dose on Drug Label
According to a lawsuit filed in Florida, a Walgreens allegedly mislabeled a prescription for Histacol DM syrup. The patient, an infant, became non-responsive after taking the first dose. The Walgreens allegedly misprinted the label, stating the dose as a quarter teaspoon instead of a quarter milliliter, six times the amount the infant was supposed to be given.

The cases above were not litigated by our law firm.

To contact a lawyer at Pritzker | Olsen, P.A. about a Walgreens prescription error and a Walgreens lawsuit, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll-free), e-mail our lawyers or submit our free case consultation form.

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Footnotes: 1. Kevin McCoy, "Lawsuit: Walgreens prescription error killed man" (Nov. 2008) <http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Story?id=3809406&page=1>.
2. Avni Patel and Brian Ross, "Walgreens Told to Pay $25.8 Million Over Teen Pharmacy Tech's Error" (March 1, 2010) http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/walgreens-told-pay-285-mil-teen-pharmacy-techs/story?id=9977262.

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Walgreens Lawsuit: Wrong Medication, Wrong Drug, Prescription Error