Johnson and Johnson is on the hot seat after patients using their antibiotic, Levaquin, is on the hot seat after many patients suffered personal injuries. A new products liability lawsuit claims that the drug – which is prescribed for bacterial infections of the lungs, urinary tract and skin – has caused Achilles’ tendon ruptures and other personal injuries to patients.
The San Diego personal injury lawyers at our firm believe that companies, that make products designed to “help” consumers with one personal injury, should make sure the products they make to do not cause more severe ones.
Levaquin has been causing personal injury.
Levaquin – made by J&J subsidiary Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc. – was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1996, but in July 2008, the FDA warned that Levaquin – and other drugs in the same class of antibiotics – put users at heightened risk of developing tendonitis and tendon ruptures. The FDA then ordered Ortho-McNeil to include on Levaquin’s label a warning about the incidence of those product liability related personal injuries.
The most common personal injury associated with Levaquin, a ruptured Achilles’ tendon, may require surgery to repair and frequently entails two months of immobility followed by surgery and a rehabilitation period of up to six months or more.
Our San Diego personal injury lawyers, we know the hazardous possibilities that come with potentially dangerous drugs. New treatments can sometimes have side effects not immediately known but realized after the side effect causes serious personal injury or even wrongful death.
Companies in the business of making antiobiotics treatments for illnesses should make sure their products do not cause more serious personal injury that will require medical treatment by a doctor.
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About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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