Drug Recall Lawyers for Pharmaceutical Medication Lawsuits

Prescription medicines have been used to treat illnesses and help patients cope with health concerns since the beginning of recorded history. Large pharmaceutical companies now control the discovery and distribution of drugs and treatments for medical concerns ranging from the common cold to cancer and everything in between. The drug recall attorneys at Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers LLC stand beside people who have been injured by the negligence of pharmaceutical companies when they put their finances ahead of consumer safety.

Our Prescription Drug Defect Attorneys Can Help

Our bad drug attorneys handle all types of injury and fatality cases related to dangerous prescription drugs, and we can help you, too. We invite you to complete our online case intake form so a drug recall lawyer can personally review your situation, without any cost or obligation on your part. And while we are based in Chicago, our firm handles drug recall and defective medical device lawsuits on behalf of clients across the country.

The power and wealth afforded to these companies through the production of countless medications and treatments must come with responsibility. Profits have long been of more importance to large pharmaceutical companies than the safety of the consumers to whom they are prescribed, and the culture of rushing medicines to market prematurely in order to claim massive profits at the cost of human lives must come to an end.

How Dangerous Drugs Make Their Way to Consumers

In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for ensuring the safety of the millions of consumers who use treatments prescribed for their ailments. Thousands of prescription medications and medical devices are brought before the agency for FDA approval, however, and it is impossible for the FDA to completely prevent the sale of medicines that have harmful side effects.

As pharmaceutical companies overload the system by rushing medicines to market without adequate research or trials to support their safe use, many medicines end up falling through the cracks and into the hands of people who are led to believe that they are safe. Unfortunately, it is often not until many people have been harmed that pharmaceutical companies can be held responsible for reckless practices and disregard for their customers' health.

The FDA often gets involved once adverse reactions have been associated with medications, but it is often the case that side effects are not clearly communicated to potential patients because that places the drugs on the FDA's radar. Despite the knowledge of potential complications, drug companies push medications on unsuspecting patients, and the FDA is often slow to act by first requiring disclosure of adverse reactions and serious side effects and then forcing the drug to be taken off the market if problems persist.

The motivation behind this all-too-frequent policy of omitting information is that patients will likely refuse to take medications that they know are linked with severe side effects and doctors will limit these prescriptions to those who have the least risk of complications.

How Pharmaceutical Drug Litigation is Different From Other Personal Injury Cases

Taking drug companies to task requires access to far more resources than those used to pursue legal action against private citizens or employers in cases of personal injury or workplace accidents. The burden of proof can be larger when pursuing drug lawsuits in Federal Court, while the facts in more traditional personal injury cases can be cut-and-dry.

If someone is harmed while on the job and there are witnesses to the event and physical proof that an act of negligence or defective equipment caused the accident, the evidence is sufficient to satisfy the burden of proof. But there is rarely any evidence to present when attempting to link a recalled medication with serious injuries, so more resources and access to specific experts are required to effectively pursue damages against the pharmaceutical industry. This is why most defective drug cases require litigation in order to secure a settlement from drug manufacturers.

At Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers LLC, our law firm access to such resources, including experts in several key fields. Medical experts can testify on the dangers and complications associated with specific medications, and economists can assess the financial impact of the medical treatment of resulting injuries. But drug companies can afford expensive attorneys of their own who have access to their own well-paid "experts" who will vouch for their employers. For this reason, dangerous drug lawsuits cannot be considered slam dunks and must be approached with care and restraint.

Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers remains committed to protecting your individual rights no matter the breadth of the litigation or the number of individual plaintiffs involved. Each drug recall lawyer in our office is actively involved in the review and litigation of cases involving prescription drugs including:

• Baby Powder / Talc Ovarian Cancers
• Valsartan Cancers (liver, kidney, stomach, colon)
• Uloric heart failure, stroke & death
• Zantac Cancers

What You Need to Know About Class Action Lawsuits Involving Recalled and Dangerous Prescription Drugs

It is increasingly common to see advertisements urging those negatively impacted by medication to come forward as part of a class action bad drug lawsuit. During these proceedings, certain facts are determined to apply to all cases, but every plaintiff has the right to pursue their own judgments and may also choose to refrain from inclusion in a mass settlement. It is important that you discuss the details of a pending class-action lawsuit with a top dangerous drug lawyer to determine which actions are in your best interest and to know what exactly you should expect throughout the process of litigation.