The purpose of taking any medication is to help alleviate your symptoms and improve your overall health. Modern drugs offer many cures, treatments, and management plans, but you may wonder what happens when your medicine makes you feel sicker and whether you have the right to pursue a lawsuit against the medicine’s manufacturer.
An experienced Rio Rancho dangerous drugs lawyer from New Mexico Accident Firm (NMAF) could help you understand your legal rights. Our personal injury attorneys could help you navigate the legal process and pursue compensation for your injuries and other losses.
Not taking a medication according to its directions can harm you, but even if you follow the directions perfectly and take the correct dosage, some drugs can still cause severe side effects.
Some of the most dangerous adverse effects of harmful medicine include:
Our skilled Rio Rancho attorneys could help you determine how the hazardous drug has affected you. We could consult with your doctors and other medical experts to learn the full impact on your physical health and what your anticipated prognosis is. We could also meet with you to discuss how the medicine has adversely affected other areas of your life, such as your emotional and mental well-being, to help you seek a damages award that fairly compensates you for every way the medication has harmed you. If the defective drug caused your loved one to lose their life, we could help you seek accountability in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Drug manufacturers have a duty to produce and market medication that is as reasonably safe as possible for its intended purpose. Although every drug can have unintended and harmful side effects, those negative effects should not outweigh the drug’s positive benefits. For instance, many chemotherapy drugs cause people to feel nauseous. While nausea is an unfortunate adverse effect, it does not outweigh the benefits of the drug’s cancer-fighting properties. However, if a new medication meant to treat chronic headaches causes some patients to suffer heart attacks, that drug could be inherently dangerous to consumers.
Our well-versed lawyers in Rio Rancho know how to review manufacturing records to determine if the company that created the dangerous medication complied with safe practices mandated by the federal Food and Drug Administration. For example, we could examine whether the company subjected the drug to sufficient testing for a long enough period and with a diverse enough population sample. We could also carefully look through the evidence to help you build a strong case for both liability and damages.
Filing a legal claim against a large pharmaceutical company can be a daunting task. Fortunately, you could retain a committed Rio Rancho dangerous drugs lawyer from our firm with extensive experience successfully representing people pursuing dangerous drug claims.
Contact our local legal team at NMAF today. We care about helping people in our community and are not afraid to aggressively and relentlessly oppose drug companies in court to do so.
