Wrongful Death

• Florida Jury Awards $25.8 Million Against Walgreen's Pharmacy for Misfilled Prescription

  Amy Rothschild | August 21, 2007 9:28 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  A jury in Bartown, Florida, rendered a $25.8 million on August 17, 2007, to a cancer patient's family who was given a wrong prescription by Walgreen's pharmacy. The wrong prescription resulted in the cancer patient having a stroke and dying several days later. The patient, who was being treated for breast cancer, was prescribed Warfarin, a blood thinner, in 2002 to treat the breast cancer....

• Alleged Nursing Home Neglect Spawns Wrongful Death Action

  Amy Rothschild | August 21, 2007 9:17 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  The daughter of an eighty-two (82) year old resident who died at a nursing home has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the nursing home. The resident, who had been residing at the nursing home since 2004, died three days after she fell and fractured her leg and hip at the nursing home. The daughter's complaint alleges wrongful death and claims that the nursing home's abuse and neglect...

• Wal-Mart Settles Lawsuit for Giving Customer Wrong Medication Resulting in Customer's Death

  Amy Rothschild | August 13, 2007 6:22 PM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  In December of 2005, Keith Scofield ordered an over-the counter drug from a Wal-Mart pharmacy in Frederick, Maryland. Mr. Schofield ordered Humulin R (u-100). Instead, Mr. Schofield was puportedly given Humulin R (u-500). Humulin R (u-500) is a prescription drug that has five times more the insulin of the medication that Mr. Schofield requested from the pharmacy. According to his family who...

• U.A. Veteran's Affairs Secretary Faces Wrongful Death Suit by Family of Iraq War Veteran

  Amy Rothschild | July 31, 2007 9:34 AM | 1 CommentCharleston, SC

  The family of an Iraq war veteran recently filed a lawsuit in Springfield, Massachusetts, on July 30, 2007, alleging negligence against Jim Nicholson, the secretary of Veterans Affairs Secretary, in the suicide death of their son. The action states that the Veterans Affairs (VA)is at fault for the death of Jeffrey Lucey, a 23 year old Marine who committed suicide in June 2004, after he was...