Sacramento Pharmaceutical Attorney

Have you or a loved one received injuries from drugs?

Contact the Sacramento pharmaceutical injury lawyer Frank D. Penney.

The United States provides some of the best health care in the world, yet an estimated 200,000 Americans die annually due to adverse reactions and harmful side-effects of prescription drugs. Manufacturers of drugs and supplements can be held responsible for sale of defective products, devices, and drugs. This responsibility is broad and includes the duty to exercise reasonable care in the design and manufacture of a product. The obligation of the manufacturer to make a safe product includes the duty to design, manufacture, inspect, and label a product appropriately. Proving that a manufacturer of a drug supplement is responsible for a defective product can be complicated and expensive.

Pharmaceutical products include prescription drugs and any product that is used on the human body by the health care industry. It is not uncommon to find a drug company distributing a product that later proves to be dangerous. Nor is it rare to discover that the manufacturer knew of the danger of a product long before it adequately warned doctors and the public.

The medical device area can include negligent manufacture of individual devices. The device may be designed in a dangerous manner or the warnings for its use may be inadequate.

Often patients are unaware that their harm had anything to do with a medical product. Only by carefully reviewing the medical records and searching the relevant literature can many such injuries be discovered.

Below are some of the most common drugs that can cause serious injury leading to pharmaceutical negligence:

• Accutane
• Baycol
• Enbrel
• Meridia
• OxyContin
• Paxil
• Prempro
• Rezulin
• Serzone
• Thimerosal
• Vioxx
• Zyprexa

Our Sacramento pharmaceutical injuries firm has the capability of discovering the part that a drug or device has had in causing harm. We have the resources to research the product and find experts who will testify. If you have a case involving a dangerous drug, please fill out our online form and have an attorney contact you about your case.