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New York Personal Injury Lawyers, Helping Those Harmed by Defective Drugs

We are taught from a young age that we should trust the recommendations of our medical care providers, and many of those recommendations concern the use of prescription medications.  When we use these medications, we tend to assume that they are going to work properly and help to improve our health.  Unfortunately, the opposite is sometimes what results from the use of these medications, and many of those who are harmed suffer permanent injuries or worse.  If you or someone you love has suffered in this manner, you need to seek the help of New York defective drugs attorneys as soon as possible.  Below is a brief introduction to this troubling issue.

The FDA Approval Process

Before a medication can be prescribed to a patient in the United States, that medication needs to obtain approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration, or FDA so that it can be marketed and sold.  While many assume that this process all but eliminates the potential for defective drugs to reach the market, the unfortunate reality is that defective medications can and do hit the market with alarming regularity.  There are many reasons for these results, and many of them relate to the use of these medications widely for the first time as opposed to being tested in controlled studies.

Dealing with Pharmaceutical Companies

When someone is harmed by prescription medications that are defective, that person faces a long and difficult road towards holding that prescription company accountable for their harm, especially if they attempt to do so by themselves.  That’s because ‘big pharma’ as it’s known in the United States occupies a position of political and financial power.  Many of these companies generate billions of dollars in revenue every year.

These enormous corporations have access to resources that could never be matched by an individual, and these resources can include teams of highly skilled defense attorneys and highly expensive expert witnesses who will present convincing testimony to juries, as this is what they often do.

As a result, individuals need to level the playing field as much as possible before attempting to hold anyone of this size accountable for the serious harm they have suffered.  That can be done by seeking and obtaining the help of New York defective drugs lawyers who have the experience necessary to hold those who caused this type of harm accountable and who can make sure that an injured patient’s legal rights are protected and enforced.

If you or someone you love has suffered in this manner, you need to contact the New York personal injury lawyers at Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald today to schedule a free initial consultation.