When a medical professional prescribes you a medication, you want to trust that they’ll have thought about how that medication may impact your long-term health. Unfortunately, medication errors are all too common, and all too dangerous. If you’ve recently fallen victim to a medication error, our Bridgewater lawyers can help you demand justice for someone else’s negligence.
At O’Connor, Parsons, Lane & Noble, we believe that everyone has the right to ask for guidance after someone else’s negligence compromises their health and well-being.
Our Bridgewater medical malpractice lawyers focus on building strong relationships with our clients, ensuring that we can offer them highly personalized representation in their hour of need.
If you have questions about how medications can negatively impact your health and how you can demand justice for your mistreatment, contact us today. We opened our doors in 2008 and aren’t afraid to put our unique experience, including our time as defense attorneys, to work on your behalf.
Common Stages of Medication Errors
There are a few different stages at which medication errors can occur. If you want to successfully identify who needs to take accountability for your medication error, you can work with our Bridgewater medication error attorneys to determine what stage an error took place at and what parties were involved in that process.
Some of the most common points at which medication errors can take place include the following:
- The prescription stage, or errors that take place because a medical professional didn’t consider how a medication might impact a user at the time of prescribing that medication. Medical professionals who prescribe medications that you’re allergic to or that conflict with your current medications can cause errors at this stage.
- The dispensing stage, or errors that take place at the pharmacy you pick a prescription up from. Pharmacy technicians who don’t label medications appropriately or who give you the wrong medication can assume responsibility for the negative effects that medication has on your health.
- The monitoring stage, or the failure of a medical professional to monitor how a prescribed medication impacts a patient over time. Likewise, medical professionals who don’t modify a patient’s prescription when it appears that medication might be hurting the user can face accusations of neglect during the monitoring stage.
What’s more, manufacturers can make errors when releasing a prescription to the public. You need to conduct a thorough investigation into your circumstances to determine at what stage an error occurred, what parties have to assume responsibility for that error, and how you can financially recover.
What to Expect From a Bridgewater Medication Error Lawyer
If your health starts to decline due to a medication error, you can contact our legal team to discuss what right you have to pursue recourse against a liable party. Our team can connect you with professional investigators who can dig deep into the chain that participated in the creation, prescription, and distribution of an impactful medication.
Once we’ve identified the specific error that led to the harm done to you, we can compile concrete evidence to assign liability for your worsening health and other losses.
We can specifically compare how professionals interacted with your prescription versus the industry standard and point out where professionals fell short of their required standard of care.
We can then outline what losses you incurred as a result of your medication usage and, subsequently, what damages a liable party owes you to account for those losses. You can count on us to represent you in conversations with insurance adjusters, medical professionals, and other legal teams as you fight to recover.
Intention in Medication Error Cases
It does not matter whether or not the party liable for your medication errors intentionally or unintentionally put you in harm’s way.
It’s our responsibility to determine where in the chain someone fell short of the duty of care that they owed you. Intentionality does not impact whether or not that party needs to assume liability for your losses.
We Fight for Injury Compensation on Your Behalf
When we present a medication error claim to an insurance company or file a medication error lawsuit on your behalf, we argue for your right to damages based on the losses you incurred as a result of that medication’s impact on your health and everyday life. In other words, we fight to see you compensated for your additional medical expenses, lost wages, and emotional distress.
We want to help you maximize the settlement you walk away with after a medication error. As such, we don’t refer to an overarching average when assigning a dollar amount to your medication error case, and we don’t let insurance companies dictate the financial narrative around your losses.
You can trust a medication error lawyer serving Bridgewater, NJ, to treat you like an individual and to advocate for your right to a settlement that addresses your unique losses. We can discuss a medication error’s financial impact on your life during your free case assessment.
Book a Free Medication Error Case Consultation Today
Medical professionals, including pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies, have an obligation to uphold an industry-wide standard of care. Their failure to do so can put you at risk for serious health concerns. If you’ve developed an injury or condition as a result of a medication error, you can work with us to hold these parties liable for your losses.
The legal team with O’Connor, Parsons, Lane & Noble can help you break down your right to action after assessing how a medication error has impacted your long-term health.
In doing so, we make it easier for you to push back when insurance adjusters and healthcare professionals try to claim that you don’t deserve support.
You can contact us today to discuss how you want to approach your fight for justice alongside an experienced medication error attorney serving Bridgewater. Let us bring our valuable insights to your pursuit of medication error damages today.