Our Victories*

Medication Errors

Over 13 Million Dollar settlement | confidential settlement
The victim of a medication error is now in a permanent vegetative state or coma.

Over $450,000.00 settlement | Palm Beach, Florida | Palm Beach County
An elderly man was the victim of a medication error when he was given an overdose of Zocor (simvastatin) and Lopid (gemfibrizole) to treat his high cholesterol and triglyceride levels. As a result, he developed rhabdomyolosis, the breakdown of muscle cell contents into the bloodstream. Ultimately the muscle contents in the bloodstream caused acute renal failure and the need for a kidney transplant.

Over $300,000.00 settlement | Lakeland, Florida | Polk County
An elderly man with Parkinson’s disease was the victim of a medication error when a mail order pharmacy sent him the wrong medication when he refilled his prescription. The medication looked similar to previous refills. After taking the medication for several weeks, he became very week and developed an irregular heart beat. He was hospitalized and emergency surgery was performed to implant a pacemaker. The medication error was not discovered until after the surgery.

*Not all results obtained by the Distasio Law Firm are provided here. These results are not necessarily representative of results obtained by the firm in all cases and we cannot promise any specific outcome of a case. The individual facts and circumstances of your case may differ from the facts and circumstances described in the representative cases. Some of the results were obtained while Attorney Scott Distasio was a partner at another firm.