Houston Defective Drug Injury Attorney

If You’ve Been Injured By a Defective Drug, Discuss Your Case With Our Houston Attorneys

Drug injury cases in Texas are highly technical and require a high standard of proof. By far, the wisest move that an injured person can do is to seek competent legal advice.

The Houston defective drug injury attorneys at Grossman Law Offices have had over 20 years of experience in this area of Texas medical malpractice law and will help you seek a fair settlement.

Why Are Drug Injury Cases So Challenging?

First of all, these cases require a huge base of medical knowledge in order to present the details convincingly and accurately. On top of that, there are so many legal technicalities and nuances involved that many law firms quite frankly are scared off from representing drug injury victims in Texas. There are also specific reasons related to Texas medical malpractice tort reforms that often make these cases even more complicated, depending on the type of drug injury case.

Types Of Drug Injury Cases in Houston, TX

Drug injury cases usually belong in one of two categories:

• Product liability, or injuries due to the design of the drug itself.
• Pharmaceutical error, or injuries due to the improper implementation of the drug. In other words, this refers to a form of medical malpractice where the wrong drug or wrong dosage is either prescribed by a physician or filled by a pharmacist.

Product Liability Cases & Houston Defective Drug Injuries

Product liability cases occur when the drug itself is found to be defective. In these cases, the victim generally will seek compensation for the damages he suffered directly from the drug’s manufacturer.

Most of these cases occur because the manufacturer does not complete adequate testing of their product, such as testing for adverse side effects. In a rush to get the drug onto the market, likely to make more money, the manufacturer may release a drug too soon. The United States drug market is vast; consequently, it is only a matter of time before these side effects begin to surface.

These types of cases are particularly challenging because huge drug manufacturers usually are surrounded by hordes of wily attorneys who have unlimited funds to defend their corporate bosses against any sort of claim or lawsuit. It also has been said that some drug manufacturers will even stoop to altering results in an attempt to remove themselves from liability. The victim’s need for a skilled Houston defective drug injury attorney could not be any clearer than in these types of cases.

Few people are aware that many law firms actually function merely as “middlemen.” They will take on a person’s case but will then subcontract that case out to larger, more capitalized law firms. At the Texas defective drug law firm of Grossman Law Offices, we personally represent all of our clients from start to finish and would never support this dubious type of practice.

Injuries Caused By Improper Implementation of the Drug

Injuries caused by improper implementation of a drug generally fall into one of these four categories:

• The doctor prescribed the wrong medication.
• The doctor prescribed the wrong dosage of the medication.
• The pharmacist filled the prescription with the wrong drug.
• The pharmacist filled the prescription with the wrong dosage.

These types of errors are considered to be a form of medical malpractice.

Why Do So Few Texas Law Firms Take On Drug Injury Cases?

Many people wonder why it is so hard to find a law firm willing to take on these complicated cases, or they may ask why Grossman Law Offices will still help victims of defective drug injuries.

To understand the answers to these questions, we first must take a look at recently indoctrinated legal statutes. Several years ago Texas lawmakers enacted tort reforms in their efforts to protect doctors from what they considered to be frivolous lawsuits. These tort reforms effectively capped the amount that negligent doctors may be held liable for. There are many critics of tort reform; they state that, in an effort to protect physicians from frivolous lawsuits, those who have been genuinely and wrongly injured by doctors suffer as well.

As a result, many law firms refuse to take on these cases in Texas.

There are, however, Houston defective drug injury attorneys who are not afraid to take on these cases. Grossman Law Offices believes that those who suffer at the hands of medical professionals are entitled to full and fair compensation for their injuries. We are not afraid of a challenge and for 20 years we have been successfully litigating these complex types of cases.

For an absolutely free consultation, contact Houston drug injury attorney Michael Grossman at Grossman Law Offices today at 1-855-392-0000 (toll-free). We are available 24 hours a day and stand by, ready to discuss your case and to answer your questions.