I am often asked, what is a prescription error? It is an error that either a doctor, nurse or pharmacy or hospital has made with respect to giving a patient a medication. This type of error is a type of Medical Malpractice Claim and unfortunately has become way too common in this day and age. ...

Friday May 5, 2017 — CBS News reports that Johnson & Johnson on Thursday was ordered by a Missouri jury to pay over $110 million to a Virginia woman who says she developed ovarian cancer after decades of using of its talc-based products for feminine hygiene. The verdict in state court in St. Louis was...

WALL TOWNSHIP – The Osteo Relief Institute shut down earlier this month after 30 patients contracted infections that were linked to the institute, according to local reports. The Osteo Relief Institute located on Route 34 in Wall Township voluntarily closed March 7 after patients contracted various bacterial infections from injections to their knees, Monmouth County...

New Jersey Infant Injury Due to Defective Products Lawyers A baby’s health and safety is the highest priority for everyone. However, tragically, thousands of children are injured or killed each year due to defective and dangerous products including medical devices or infant products that may sometimes cause unintended harm to your infant. A product is...

A new round of personal injury litigation will commence resulting from a slip-and-fall accident that occurred at a KFC restaurant in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The plaintiff was injured after sliding on a slick floor near the restaurant bathroom. The plaintiff experienced loss of feeling in her arms, legs and back, as well as a...

New Jersey Prescription or Medication Error Lawyers PRESCRIPTION OR MEDICATION ERRORS According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, 70% of Americans take one prescription drug and 50% take two prescription drugs. Whether you go to a national chain pharmacy (CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, Kroger, Target, Walmart, etc.) or your local independently-owned pharmacy in your town, you...

Medical Malpractice Lab Errors The administrative mistakes may simply be that the specimen is not handled appropriately in terms of it getting to the appropriate person for analysis or the paperwork is not submitted appropriately so that the result never actually makes it back to the physician. In terms of specimens not being analyzed properly...

Nursing negligence is an aspect of medical malpractice, where a nurse fails to adhere to the appropriate standard of care and deviates or departs from that standard of care and is negligent, and that negligence, unfortunately, causes you harm. That would represent a nursing negligence case.

Part of the investigation process for a case involving an injury, Cerebral Palsy or birth injury or a brain injury, would be to look at the medical records, and specifically the fetal heart monitor strips. During labor, the mother will have this monitor strapped to her belly, and that monitor will record the fetal heart...