Britcher, Leone & Roth fights to protect the hundreds of victims injured each year by incorrect harmful drugs and faulty medical devices. Drug and medical device development often occurs faster than the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can thoroughly assess for safety before they are put on the market. Sometimes manufacturers seeking financial gain from a new drug or product may rush products into the market without important safety testing and on occasion by hiding clinical studies that uncover dangerous problems from the FDA. At times, medical studies that supposedly demonstrate the safety and efficacy of a drug or device are biased and minimize its dangers or overstate its benefits. Once a drug or product is approved and goes to market, hundreds of thousands if not millions of people are at risk of injury and death if the drug or product is unsafe or ineffective. While most pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices are safe and effective for their intended use, some are not.

Claims against drug and device manufacturers are complicated and involve sophisticated legal proofs, supporting medical and technical expert testimony, and the resources to litigate claims against large corporations. There are various federal and state legal requirements that must be met in order to succeed. To be successful on these claims one must have knowledge of the medicine, of drug and device manufacturing processes, of the Food and Drug Administration regulations, and corporate marketing practices. Britcher, Leone & Roth has the ability to bring these claims on behalf of their clients.

Another way in which consumers are injured by drugs is the incorrect filling of a prescription, either with the wrong drug or the wrong dosage of a drug, by a pharmacy. Such an error has the potential to cause permanent serious injury and event death. Britcher, Leone & Roth has also handled numerous pharmacy negligence claims on behalf of individuals who have been harmed by the negligence of a pharmacist.

With the ever increasing competition for new drugs and devices and the ever increasing profits to be made, there is a great need for Britcher, Leone & Roth to maintain its commitment to helping individuals injured by unsafe products.

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