TMP Master Class - Personal Injury Litigation
Without the myriad of drugs made available by pharmaceutical companies, our society would struggle to treat the majority of health conditions. Drugs are essential and used by many, so it stands to reason that the utmost care should be taken to ensure that they are safe for consumption. While most utilize prescription and over-the-counter drugs without issue, any skilled, dangerous drug lawyer will tell you many end up suffering severe injuries because of some kind of defect present in the drug.
These defective drug injuries have the potential to inflict crippling damages that can change lives forever. People who take defective drugs may have their finances ruined by expensive medical bills or disrupted career prospects and will likely have to cope with intense emotional and physical pain inflicted by their injuries. Despite this, people harmed by defective drugs still have legal options to take back their livelihood.
Filing a drug injury lawsuit can give those injured by defective drugs the opportunity to seek compensation for the damages they suffered. Legal action can be your route to getting your life back on track and making sure that those liable for your injuries face the consequences.
If you or a loved one has suffered an injury caused by a defective over-the-counter or prescription drug, do not hesitate to contact Turnbull, Holcomb, & Moak today. Our dangerous drug lawyers are available 24/7 at (205) 831-5040 or online for a free case evaluation or to discuss your rights and options further.
Plus, we work on contingency, so you only pay us if we win your case.
Pharmaceutical companies wield a great deal of power and control an immense amount of wealth that has essentially made them a monolith in the world, but they are still beholden to the law. Despite how intimidating the pharmaceutical companies are, consumers still have rights, and those harmed by defective drugs can take legal action. Lawsuits filed over defective drugs fall under the purview of product liability, which is the field of law that deals with companies’ legal responsibility toward consumers harmed by their defective products. A drug injury lawsuit holds these companies accountable for negligence and errors on their part that caused drug defects and demands they provide compensation for the damages these defects caused. These drugs can be defective in either their design, manufacture, or labeling, where the risks to the consumer are not properly conveyed.
In order to accomplish this, drug companies often take advantage of the fact that it is not the FDA that tests drugs but the drug companies that can skew results in their favor. Dangerous drugs also find their way onto the market because drug companies are technically allowed to sell dangerous drugs as long as the benefits outweigh the risks. In some cases, pharmaceutical companies just blatantly lie about their product’s safety, hide any evidence to the contrary, and fabricate positive studies of their product. This can all be accomplished through numerous loopholes these companies navigate with ease.
Like with other defective products on the market, there are resources to alert consumers that they have been using a dangerous drug. In the case of defective drugs, one can utilize the FDA’s drug recall page, which lists all of the currently recalled and defective drugs that consumers may have been exposed to. There is a wealth of other sites as well that catalog the most recent defective drugs that consumers may have been injured by, such as Drugwatch. In most cases, people find out they were injured by defective drugs through getting diagnosed by a physician.
