The Cochran Firm Legal Blog

The pharmaceuticals industry has sales totaling hundreds of billions of dollars annually, yet recalled pharmaceuticals dominate the news every day. Every year, defective pharmaceuticals cause injury and death for thousands of unsuspecting consumers in the United States.

In many cases, pharmaceutical manufacturers ignore the safety of the consuming public in an effort to rush new drugs onto the market while failing to conduct adequate testing that could have alerted them to real dangers inherent in their product.

Injuries and deaths occur even when these defective pharmaceuticals are used according to the directions given by the pharmaceutical company. These defective drugs often cause liver and kidney damage, damage to the heart and pulmonary dysfunction, stroke and heart attack.

Drug categories often involved are arthritis medications, cholesterol lowering drugs, diet drugs, anti-depressants and vaccines. Although side effects are a common occurrence when taking medications of any kind, defective pharmaceuticals cause life-threatening and often fatal results. The consumption of defective drugs causes great pain and suffering for many and lawsuits with damages in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

If you live in Birmingham, Alabama or the surrounding area and you or a loved one was injured or died as a result of consuming a defective pharmaceutical, please contact an experienced defective pharmaceutical attorney at the Birmingham, Alabama office of The Cochran Firm if you would like an evaluation of your case at no cost to you so you can obtain the compensation you are entitled to.

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