Massachusetts Family Wins $7.1 Million in Pharmacy Malpractice Case
March 28, 2002
A jury ordered three former pharmacists at a Massachusetts hospital to pay $7.1 million to the family of a four-year-old boy who received an improper drug dosage months after his birth. Pharmacists at Children's Hospital in Boston failed to dilute the high-blood-pressure drug Enalaprilat in March 1997, mistakenly giving three-month-old Joey Rice 100 times the proper amount.
The infant's parents, Christopher and Kathleen Rice, alleged the overdose caused Joey's severe brain damage that left him mentally retarded. Defense attorneys argued the boy, who was born prematurely, had already suffered neurological damage before the medication was given.
-- Article Courtesy of InjuryBoard.com
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