Dennis Quaid Sues Drug Maker, Baxter Healthcare, Over Defectively Designed Heparin Drug Labels
Hollywood heavyweight, Dennis Quaid and his spouse recently filed a product liability lawsuit against Illinois based Baxter Healthcare over excessive doses of Heparin given to their new set of twins at Cedar Sinai Medical Center in LA.
The Quaid's assert that the drug maker negligently packed different doses of the medicine with the same color background and that different doses should have been designated with distinctive colors to avoid confusion.
In essence the Hollywood couple strongly feels that Baxter Healthcare should not have packed different doses of the drug with the same color and should have already recalled the defectively designed packaging after three children overdosed on the drug last year and died. The Quaid's apparently are holding off for now in suing Cedar Sinai Medical Center - a break for the hospital of choice for many of Hollywood's elite - given that Cedar Sinai has all but conceded that several of their pharmacy techs and nurses neglected to verify the exact dosage of Heparin before administering it to the Quaid twins, Thomas and Zoe.
The Quaid's have a right to be upset I do not blame them. Baxter Healthcare deflected blame to the Hospital, but Baxter knew and should have known that inadvertent misuse of the medicine is very foreseeable, thereby shooting down Baxter's defense of "Misuse". Time will tell. It is a good idea to absolutely double check with hospital nurses the exact dosage of a drug about to be given to your children, especially if you are not familiar with what are considered to be proper dosages and the Quaids most likely were not.
If you or a loved one has been injured by this or any other defective product, I would invite
you to contact my law firm, Sam Levine, Attorney at Law.
