Dallas Defective Drug Injury Attorney

Dallas Defective Drug Injury Attorney Michael Grossman on Pharmacy Injuries in DFW

If you have reason to believe that your injury or illness may be due to a pharmaceutical error or defective drug, you may be able to seek compensation for your incurred financial losses through a product defect lawsuit in Texas. However, pursuing legal action for such an injury can be a daunting task, especially if you decide against seeking the help of an experienced Dallas defective drug injury attorney. For a myriad of reasons, these particular kinds of personal injury cases present specific challenges to plaintiffs seeking compensation. Our Texas drug defect attorneys can help you understand the merits of your case, the likely battles you may encounter in seeking fair compensation, and the ways in which our defective drug law firm in Dallas can assist you in seeking justice for your defective drug injury.

Why Are Drug Injury Lawsuits Considered Challenging?

Those that design drugs and those that prescribe drugs are presumed to have a level of medical knowledge that far exceeds that of a regular person. People have reasonable expectations in regards to taking a drug. For example, people expect to know what a drug is intended for, its possible side effects, and whether or not the drug may cause further harm due to a pre-existing medical condition or the usage of other drugs in conjunction with a specific drug. In other words, those that need drugs to achieve health trust that drug manufacturers, doctors, and pharmacists will perform their duties to the best of their abilities so that harm does not befall a patient. While accidents can happen, even in the field of medicine, it is reasonable to assume that a drug will not cause further injury or illness if correctly manufactured or prescribed. However, most people will not understand how a drug may have compounded an injury or prolonged an illness. Furthermore, most people will not be able to know whether a defective drug, a wrongly prescribed drug, or an incorrect dosage may have led to their drug injury in Texas.

The expert medical knowledge required to prove that a defective drug injury occurred is one of the major challenges in drug defect lawsuits in Dallas. These particular kinds of personal injury lawsuits require certain technical knowledge to be acquired, or to be obtained with the help of a medical expert. Many law firms simply do not have access to such experts, or fear the amount of work that can sometimes be generated by such technical cases. Our medical malpractice law firm in Dallas is not one of those firms. We have helped many victims of medical malpractice, including those that have suffered defective drug injuries. We can help drug defect victims seek competent medical experts that can connect a victim’s injuries to a defective drug, a wrong dosage, or an incorrectly prescribed drug. Furthermore, defective drug injury lawsuits can be complicated based on the type of lawsuit brought against a negligent party.

Types of Drug Injury Cases

Drug injury cases can be listed in two broad categories:

• Product liability lawsuits relate to the negligence of a drug’s manufacturer in creating a drug that is unsafe for public use, such as Hydroxycut.
• Pharmaceutical error lawsuits relate to the negligence of a drug provider in their issuance of a drug to a patient, i.e. the wrong dosage is prescribed or the wrong drug is prescribed.

Defective Drug Product Liability Lawsuits in Dallas, TX

Drug manufacturers may sometimes have more merit in being called “pill-pushers” than those for whom the term is meant. With millions of dollars sometimes at risk in their efforts to get a drug to market, a drug manufacturer may cut corners in a variety of ways. Often, full and proper testing of the drug may not occur before the drug is released to the public. If this occurs and a detrimental side effect not listed on the drug’s container causes harm to a person, that person can seek restitution for their injury through a defective drug product liability lawsuit. If a drug manufacturer produces an off-brand drug that uses sub-par ingredients which can be shown to have had a negative and injurious impact on a person, that manufacturer can likewise be held liable through a drug defect personal injury lawsuit.

However, seeking legal action against a drug manufacturer is not for the faint of heart. With millions and millions of dollars often at their disposal, drug manufacturers are often ready to protect their assets at all costs. For example, imagine if you are the first person to have suffered an injury due to a drug that was wildly popular or highly marketed, like Hydroxycut. With your lawsuit, the negative publicity received by the drug company may be enough to severely damage their bottom line. Consequently, they will work as hard as they can to ensure that you’re either paid off through an unmediated (and likely low-ball) settlement, or they will aggressively defend their company using a cadre of well-trained, highly experienced, and even more highly-paid, defense attorneys. In other words, they will likely stop at next to nothing in order to prevent an injured victim from receiving any type of compensation because such a capitulation would mean that they erred and may face many more lawsuits following yours. While this may be an unlikely scenario, the way that a possibly liable drug manufacturer may act is oftentimes all too true.

This is one of the reasons why many attorneys will not help a victim of a defective drug; the odds are often too stacked against the victim’s rights, especially if a large drug manufacturer may be a defendant. However, Dallas defective drug injury attorney Michael Grossman and his team at Grossman Law Offices believe that every injured party has the right to seek compensation for their injury, regardless of the size or legal heft of a defendant. As proven by our past experience in assisting clients against large insurance companies and wealthy defendants, our attorneys have the knowledge, certitude, and attitude to aggressively defend your rights against even the toughest of opponents.

It should also be noted that some law firms will offer to assist a drug injury victim only to later sub-contract the work to another firm that has more experience in going up against big pharmaceutical companies. If we believe that our services can help you achieve full and fair compensation, we will take your case and process it from start to finish. We are not interested in how you can help pad our successes list; we’re interested in your success.

Pharmaceutical Error Lawsuits in Dallas and Forth Worth, TX

When a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, or other type of medical professional prescribes the wrong drug, or the wrong dosage of a drug, and a patient suffers further injury or illness due to that mistake, a victim may seek compensation for their further injury or illness through a pharmaceutical error lawsuit in Texas. Pharmacy errors are a form of medical malpractice. However, pursuing legal action against a medical professional in Texas is quite challenging due to recent tort reform. While these tort reform efforts sought to prevent frivolous lawsuits from being brought against doctors and other medical professionals, consequently tying up the court system with long-lasting civil suits, the tort reform had a more detrimental affect on injured victims who had a legitimate claim of medical malpractice. For instance, the tort reform set a cap on the amount of compensation that an injured patient could receive through a Texas medical malpractice lawsuit. This cap is often woefully inadequate in order to fully cover a victim with severe injuries and incurred damages. Due to this possible lack of full compensation, many medical malpractice attorneys in Texas deign to take on such cases. Our attorneys will help you seek full compensation for your injury, whether such compensation may come from a negligent doctor, a negligent hospital, a negligent third party (such as a drug manufacturer), or a combination of all liable parties.

Additionally, another roadblock that often causes medical malpractice law firms in Texas to resist taking on medical malpractice litigants is the fact that the standard of proof required of an injured person in a medical malpractice lawsuit is quite high. As previously mentioned, medical experts must often be obtained to provide specific, technical information that can work to show how a medical professional may have been negligent. Many law firms simply do not have access to such medical experts; our firm does, and we have used countless medical experts in the past to assist our clients in regards to medical malpractice and pharmaceutical error injury cases in Texas.

With a fearless attitude in regards to defending the rights of our clients against big drug companies and access to medical experts that can work to connect your injury to the negligence of a medical professional, the Dallas medical malpractice attorneys at Grossman Law Offices are ready to assist you if you have suffered further injury due to an unsafe drug or a pharmaceutical error. With 20 years of relevant experience, our Dallas personal injury lawyers are ready to help you hold all negligent parties accountable for their actions in causing you further harm or illness. Contact us today at 1-855-326-0000.