America’s Most Familiar Dangerous Drugs Law Firm—Proven Unsafe Drugs Lawyers
Many pharmaceutical products play a vital role in improving and enhancing our quality of life. Prescription medications, over-the-counter drugs and even supplements can help us cope with pain, provide relief from the symptoms of illness, prolong our lives and cure serious illnesses. While it is undeniable that most drugs and medications provide valuable benefits, sometimes certain pharmaceutical products can do more harm than good.
Many consumers presume that if a prescription medication has been approved by the FDA or is allowed to be sold over-the-counter, then it must be safe. Unfortunately, many drugs approved by the FDA are later discovered to have serious side effects that may be life-threatening. Some of these dangerous drugs are eventually determined to have less medical value than the substantial health risk they pose and may be recalled. If you have been injured by a defective drug, you need experienced pharmaceutical liability attorneys.
Successful litigation of a dangerous drug case requires extensive analysis and discovery of medical trials, adverse event reporting, biochemistry, pharmacology and similar relevant scientific evidence. Large pharmaceutical companies often make billions of dollars in profit from a single drug so they have extremely deep pockets and fight tenaciously to keep profitable drugs from being removed from the market. The same resources are used to aggressively defend defective pharmaceutical lawsuits because drug companies are afraid of opening the floodgates to the millions of people who may have used their product.
Often unsafe drugs are rushed to the market without adequate clinical trials or despite pharmaceutical companies’ awareness of serious adverse side effects. When this happens, consumers who trust that the unsafe pharmaceutical has been adequately vetted face life threatening side effects which may include:
- Heart attack (Cardiovascular incidents)
- Stroke
- Liver failure
- Heart damages
- Kidney failure
- Blood clotting particularly in the legs
- Stephen Johnson syndrome
- Gallbladder disease
- Catastrophic birth defects
Dangerous or defective drugs may cause serious injury to adults who take the drugs or to unborn children who are exposed to the drug during pregnancy. Most personal injury law firms lack the expertise and resources to effectively litigate against massive pharmaceutical companies that have billions of dollars as well as teams of attorneys and experts at their disposal. Drug companies have a responsibility to provide safe medications and drugs that perform according to the pharmaceutical manufacturer’s advertising. If a drug has adverse side effects, the pharmaceutical company has a responsibility to disclose any known side effects or health risks associated with the drug. The obligation to disclose adverse events associated with a drug or medication continues after the drug has obtained FDA approval and the drug is being prescribed by physicians.
When adverse effects are reported by patients using a drug or such effects are revealed in clinical trials, these must be disclosed to the FDA. If there are severe adverse effects associated with a drug that has been approved by the FDA, the agency may require a black box warning, which is the strongest warning that may be included on drug labeling. Some drugs that have life-threatening side effects may even be subject to recall.
Our defective pharmaceutical attorneys have been representing those who suffer serious injury or wrongful death caused by dangerous or defective drugs since 1972. Some of the types of defective pharmaceutical cases that we handle include:
- Actos
- Avandia
- Baycol
- Chantix
- Darvon
- Fosamax
- Gardasol
- Heparin
- Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
- Paxil
- Prempro
- Topamax
- Tylenol (Acetaminophen)
- Vioxx
- Yaz
If you or someone you love has been adversely impacted by a defective pharmaceutical, we urge you to contact us so that we can evaluate whether you may have a right to file a defective pharmaceutical lawsuit against the manufacturer of the dangerous drug. Defective pharmaceutical lawsuits are complex so we urge you to work with our experienced defective drug attorneys at Jacoby & Meyers.
We invite you to contact us today to find out how Jacoby & Meyers can help you with all of your legal needs. We have offices nationwide, including Southern California, New York, Alabama, Florida, and Arizona so call us at 1-800-411-4LAW to see how we can help.
