Drug Injury Lawsuit in Arkansas

How Does a Drug Injury Lawsuit Work?

You may not be aware, but many ongoing drug injury lawsuits exist in various courts.

Some of the known ones include Taxotere lawsuits, IVC filter lawsuits, Zantac lawsuits, and others.

A drug injury lawsuit work by filing your case in your nearby local court.

If the respective courts in the region receive the majority of the same cases, the cases are turned into MDL (multidistrict litigation).

According to this, all separate cases with similar issues are combined together and are given a common judgment.

Some of the drug injury lawsuits can be filed in a class action.

Many plaintiffs representing the typical class of members come together to file class-action lawsuits.

Usually, drug injury lawsuits are treated under MDL.

The settlement amount (if any) is notified to each plaintiff through the mail.

How Can a Drug Injury Lawsuit Help?

Filing a drug injury lawsuit can help monetarily.

When you file a drug injury lawsuit, this means you can seek the compensation and damages that were caused due to drug injury.

A drug injury can be life-threatening and severe.

It can have serious complications resulting in extra expenses with no fault of yours.

You may have to undergo surgery, suffer from diseases like cancer, hair loss, and other such side effects.

You may have to get it treated, resulting in voluminous medical bills.

Apart from that, you may have to leave your job.

If you are the sole breadwinner, any drug injury can affect the standard of living of the whole family.

Keith Law Group injury attorneys help you in filing your drug injury lawsuit.

They also fight your case with all their will so that the maximum compensation amount can be recovered.

In a drug injury lawsuit, the plaintiff can seek to recover both monetary and non-monetary damages.

Some of these losses can be:

• Present and future medical bills related to injury caused
• Loss of current income
• Loss of future income
• Non-monetary damages like pain and suffering, emotional bearing
• loss of companionship

The estimation of non-monetary damages depends on several factors.

For example, the non-monetary damages are on a higher side if the drug injury involves a wrongful death.

Similarly, monetary damages are estimated based on the extent of the injury, the period for which income is lost, the plaintiff’s current job, and other such factors.

How Can a Drug Injury Attorney Help?

A drug injury attorney can help in multiple ways when filing a drug injury lawsuit.

Apart from trying his best to recover the maximum possible compensation, he will work upon:

• Accessing the success of the case
• Advising you the best course of action
• Conduct extensive research on your case, collecting documents, evidence to prove your case
• Makes sure that you are eligible for filing such lawsuits according to the Arkansas drug injury laws
• Handle all the paperwork, presenting and submitting documents before the deadline.
• Handle all the regulations in case of class action lawsuits
• In case of the unsatisfactory settlement amount, reviewing the case and taking it to the court

Which Parties Are Sued in a Drug Injury Lawsuit?

There are majorly three (3) parties that are liable and can be sued in a drug injury lawsuit – these three (3) parties are:

1. Drug Manufacturers

In the majority of the case, it is the drug manufacturers that have to bear the brunt in case of drug injuries.

Drug manufacturers are liable for a drug injury if:

• They fail to warn the pharmacists and doctors of their medicines side effects
• If the drug has a manufacturing defect
• If the drug/device is designed faulty (for instance, IVC filters)

2. Doctors

Doctors are liable in case they prescribe the wrong medicine, or mentions the wrong dosage, etc.

3. Pharmacists

Pharmacists are liable for selling expired medicines or wrong medicines.

To get more assistance on drug injury lawsuits, contact Keith Law Firm today.

Our drug injury attorneys can help you out while you recover from the injury at your own pace.