Colson Hicks Eidson
Miami Jury Awards More Than $38 Million in Tragic Pharmaceutical and Medical Negligence Case
Published in Drug Law Weekly, March 31st, 2009
A Miami-Dade County jury awarded Amanda Slavin $38,323,196 in compensatory damages against Defendants McKesson Medication Management LLC and a local neurosurgeon today, announced lead counsel Julie Braman Kane, partner at the Coral Gables-based law firm Colson Hicks Eidson, who tried the case with her partner Joseph J. Kalbac Jr. On October 24, 2003 Miami-Dade county resident Amanda Slavin underwent intraspinal surgery for a repair of a spinal fluid leak. During surgery, the neurosurgeon injected Slavin’s intrathecal space with Methylene Blue which operating room personnel acquired from a medicine cabinet maintained by McKesson Medication Management LLC. McKesson had contracted with Mt....
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Source: Drug Law Weekly (2009-03-31)
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