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______ VERDICT - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - FAILURE TO WITHDRAW ACETAMINOPHEN WITH CODEINE DESPITE LONG TERM SIGNS OF ACETAMINOPHEN RELATED LIVER DYSFUNCTION - DEATH ACTION.
This was a medical malpractice death action involving a 59-year- old decedent who had been suffering from chronic back pain for many years stemming from a herniated disc and who had been treated by the defendant internist/family physician with acetaminophen with codeine. The plaintiff contended that despite potential toxicity to the liver and numerous incidents of elevated liver...
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______ VERDICT INCLUDING $1,000,000 PUNITIVE AWARD - PRODUCTS LIABILITY - FAILURE TO WARN - PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY ALLEGEDLY FAILS TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE WARNINGS REGARDING THE RISK OF LIVER TOXICITY ASSOCIATED WITH ITS PRODUCT TYLENOL - LIVER FAILURE - DAMAGE TO KIDNEYS CAUSED BY ANTI-REJECTION DRUG TAKEN FOLLOWING LIVER TRANSPLANT - FUTURE LOSS OF KIDNEYS ANTICIPATED.
The plaintiff in this action was a 39-year-old male, former special assistant to President George Bush, who lost his liver as a result of liver toxicity allegedly caused by the over-the- counter medication, "Tylenol Extra Strength." The plaintiff's cause of action against the defendant pharmaceutical company, was grounded in products liability theories of failure to warn.

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______ VERDICT - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - FAILURE TO WITHDRAW ACETAMINOPHEN WITH CODEINE DESPITE LONG TERM SIGNS OF ACETAMINOPHEN RELATED LIVER DYSFUNCTION - DEATH ACTION.
This was a medical malpractice death action involving a 59-year- old decedent who had been suffering from chronic back pain for many years stemming from a herniated disc and who had been treated by the defendant internist/family physician with acetaminophen with codeine. The plaintiff contended that despite potential toxicity to the liver and numerous incidents of elevated liver...
- from The National Jury Verdict Review and Analysis (28111) Login for Acetaminophen Verdict
______ VERDICT - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - PRESCRIPTION OF CONTRAINDICATED DARVOCET N-100 - LIVER TOXICITY - THREE WEEK COMA - KIDNEY FAILURE - BELOW-THE-KNEE LEG AMPUTATION - RESPIRATORY DISTRESS - TRACHEOTOMY - SEIZURES - WRONGFUL DEATH OF 49-YEAR-OLD.
This action was brought by the estate of the 49-year-old decedent against the defendant family physician, a Philadelphia pharmacy and a pharmacist. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant doctor prescribed Darvocet N-100 to the decedent when it was contraindicated because of evidence of dependence and depression. The defendant doctor denied prescribing the drug during the year...
- from The Pennsylvania Jury Verdict Review and Analysis (40367) Login for Acetaminophen Verdict
______ VERDICT Professional negligence - Pharmacist error - Filling of prescription with incorrect medication - Aggravation of pre- existing stomach ulcer.
The female plaintiff, in her 40's, brought this action against the defendant K-Mart, alleging negligence on the part of its pharmacy department whose pharmacist filled the plaintiff's prescription with the wrong medication. The plaintiff contended p 7 3 that as a result of her ingesting the wrong medication, she suffered a worsening of her pre-exist...
- from The National Jury Verdict Review and Analysis (6044) Login for Acetaminophen Verdict
______ RECOVERY - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ALLEGEDAGAINST HOSPITAL, E.R. PHYSICIAN, NURSE AND CONSULTING PSYCHOLOGIST BY PLAINTIFF FOR DEATH BY OVERDOSE OF DECEDENT - DECEDENT BROUGHT INTO HOSPITAL AFTER OVERDOSE WENT OUTSIDE UNSUPERVISED FOR CIGARETTE AND TOOK FATAL OVERDOSE.
The plaintiff's decedent, a 37-year-old female with a history of mental illness, was talking by telephone to her caseworker when she revealed that she had taken an overdose of pain medication.

An ambulance was called and she was taken to the emergency room of the defendant hospital, a local general hospital. The plaintiff alleged that while the decedent went out on two uns...
- from The New England Jury Verdict Review and Analysis (30983) Login for Acetaminophen Verdict
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