What makes drug injury cases so challenging?
Aside from the obvious highly technical, medical nature of the case, drug injury cases are often subject to legal technicalities that make them too complicated for many law firms to even attempt. The specific reasons that make these cases challenging depend on the type of drug injury case. Drug injury cases generally fall into two distinct categories: • Products Liability: Injuries due to the design of the drug (IE: Hydroxycut). • Pharmaceutical Error: Injuries due to improper implementation of the drug (medical malpractice in the form of wrong dosage, inaccurately prescribed, wrong drug accidentally substituted, etc.) Injuries due to the design of the drug: When the design of the drug itself is said to be defective, the case is known as a drug products liability case. In a drug products liability case, the plaintiff will generally seek recovery from the drug’s manufacturer for damages that the plaintiff has suffered. The vast majority of these cases occur because the manufacturer of t
