New Orleans Medication Error Lawyer
You go to the pharmacy expecting what they give you to be safe.
But these days, pharmacy companies put too much pressure on pharmacists to move patients through quickly.
They’re shorthanded as they rush to fill hundreds of prescriptions per day.
This can mean that you:
- Get the wrong medicine without realizing it
- Get the wrong dose
- Even get somebody else’s prescription
It’s dangerous to take a drug that isn’t what the doctor prescribed. Not getting what you need risks your condition getting worse. Getting incorrect medications that may be strong and have painful side effects can directly hurt you.
Pharmacies are not disclosing their mistakes, but estimates put the number of dispensing errors at 54 million per year, 2.3 million of them potentially harmful.
When this happens to people in the New Orleans area, The Bowling Law Firm works to get you fair compensation.
Bowling Law Firm has been helping New Orleanians for more than 40 years.
Tell our attorneys what happened to you—we don’t have staff “screen” calls—and we’ll see if we can secure financial support for you to move on.
CONTACT US TODAYTypes of Compensation You Can Pursue after a Harmful Medication Error
Most of the time in pharmacy error cases, you can seek payment for two major areas of loss that you’ve suffered:
- Compensation for direct costs of the pharmacy mistake: medical bills, lost work time and income
- Compensation for the hardship this has put you through: “pain and suffering” that doesn’t come with a bill but certainly has a price in terms of your enjoyment of life
Louisiana law has limits on how much you can collect for certain types of damages from health care providers.
Proving and calculating non-economic damages, like pain and suffering, requires legal skills.
But if the medical treatment you’ll need because of damage from the wrong prescription could be ongoing far into the future, there’s no limit to how much of that the pharmacy and their insurance may have to cover.
This allows you to focus on healing and worry less about money.
Talk to our pharmacy and medical malpractice legal team in a free first conversation to see what your options are.
Going Up Against Big Pharmacies with a Medication Error Lawyer
Small, local pharmacies can certainly make mistakes. The New Orleans medication error lawyers at Bowling see that sometimes.
But big chain pharmacies, where the employees work under quotas on prescriptions to fill each day and pressure for corporate profits, seem to be where a lot of the horror stories come from.
It’s intimidating to go up against a big, national chain. But a skilled pharmacy error lawyer knows the industry and their tactics, putting you on more even ground with the big companies.
Bowling medication error lawyers have seen how the pharmacy companies behave, including:
Our attorneys are recognized in this field:
- Best Lawyers in America (David Bowling and the firm)
- Super Lawyers (reserved for the top 5%), David Bowling
- The American Board of Trial Advocates (recognized David Bowling’s extensive jury trial experience.)
- American College of Trial Lawyers, where David Bowling is a fellow, only accepts 1 percent of Louisiana attorneys.
- Super Lawyers “Rising Star” for Bowling attorney Katie Sepcich Drummond.
- Martindale-Hubbell’s highest AV-Preeminent rating for ability and ethics (for the firm).
Besides the attorneys, Bowling has highly skilled paralegals who know how to dive into medical information and strengthen our clients’ cases.
Nobody can go back in time and rewind the mistake that altered your life. But the New Orleans medication error lawyers at Bowling can help you get the resources you need to rebuild.
