New Bern Dangerous Drugs Lawyer

The medications professionals prescribe you should improve your overall quality of life. However, pharmaceutical manufacturers can fail to properly test their products or even release products, knowing that they’re unsafe for use. What can you do if you’re impacted by one of these dangerous drugs? Our New Bern lawyers can help you file a claim for damages.

Whitley Law Firm first started serving Raleigh, Greenville, Kinston, Jacksonville, New Bern, Winston-Salem, and the surrounding areas in 1974.

We bring those decades of legal experience to your pursuit of justice. You can count on our New Bern personal injury lawyers to represent your best interests as your case for damages evolves. 

New Bern Dangerous Drug Lawyers Can Help You Identify Unsafe Products

How do you know when a drug or related product poses an active danger to your health? Most of the time, you can’t tell until the drug starts to have a concrete impact on your health.

You can work with medical professionals to compare your pre-dosage health to your post-dosage health to highlight how a prescription impacted your well-being.

A New Bern dangerous drugs lawyer can use your health history as the foundation of a personal injury case. Once we understand how a drug impacted your physical well-being, we can investigate a drug manufacturer to determine whether or not they:

• Released contaminated batches of a controlled product to the general public
• Improperly tested a batch of the medication you’re on
• Released an unsafe batch of medications despite testing errors
• Inappropriately bottled or stored a drug
• Printed and released misinformation on a drug’s label

How to Prove Manufacturer Negligence

Our team proves negligence by bringing forward evidence of both a drug’s negative impact on someone’s health and a manufacturer’s inappropriate conduct.

When arguing that a manufacturer failed to uphold the duty of care they owed you, we can point to:

• Redacted or destroyed product tests
• Statements from manufacturing employees or independent testers 
• Videos or photos of the latest release of products compared to previous safer versions
• Emails or electronic data elaborating on a manufacturer’s knowledge of an inappropriate drug release
• Safety standards flouted when a manufacturer printed certain inaccurate instructions or safety information on a drug’s label

We work with professional investigators to dig deep into the negligence that led to a threat to your health. You can count on our team to keep you up to date as our investigation into your losses evolves.

When to Contact an Experienced Dangerous Drug Lawyer in New Bern

We do not recommend that anyone try to take on a drug manufacturer on their own. Pharmaceutical manufacturers have comprehensive legal teams on their side, and they know how to minimize your losses or challenge your request for loss-based compensation.

If you work with an attorney, you can prevent pharmaceutical companies and their insurance providers from manipulating the facts surrounding your health. We can stop manufacturers from claiming a drug’s impact stemmed from your pre-existing conditions or the misuse of the drug. 

We can more effectively build a case against a manufacturer if we get in on your case shortly after you detect a change in your health. Fortunately, our dangerous drugs case consultations come free of charge. You can book yours the moment you suspect something’s wrong without committing to a civil case.

North Carolina’s Personal Injury Statute of Limitations

What’s more, you have to account for North Carolina’s personal injury statute of limitations. N.C. Stat. § 1-52(5) gives you three years to take legal action against a pharmaceutical manufacturer. If you can’t file your claim within those three years, you may lose your right to ask for compensation based on your losses.

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How to Ask for the Compensation You Deserve

When you bring a dangerous drugs claim forward, you have the right to ask for compensation based on the losses you sustained due to the impact a drug had on your health. Our team can help you outline your right to damages based on losses like:

• Emergency medical services
• Second opinions and restorative care
• Physical therapy, pain management, and at-home assistance, as applicable
• Temporary or permanent disabilities
• Lost wages
• Your inability to return to work
• Emotional distress
• Reduced quality of life
• Wrongful death and funeral expenses, if applicable

You do not have to meet pharmaceutical representatives in front of a judge to argue for this compensation. Most pharmaceutical companies prefer to hold settlement negotiations out of court.

Our New Bern dangerous drugs attorneys can stand with you throughout these negotiations to keep conversations focused on your right to comprehensive support.

When to File a Class Action Lawsuit Against a Drug Manufacturer

There’s a chance that you’re not the only person negatively impacted by the improper release of a drug onto the public market. If you can connect with other people who suffered health conditions similar to yours while using a specific drug, you can work together to file a class action lawsuit against the manufacturer responsible for your losses.

Class action lawsuits allow all of the parties negatively impacted by a drug’s release to pool their evidence against a manufacturer. You can work with our team to elect a lead representative to move your case forward. 

Don’t Let Pharmaceutical Injustice Upend Your Life

Pharmaceutical manufacturers shouldn’t have the power to upend your financial and physical well-being. If you find yourself struggling to recover from injuries or conditions that manufacturers introduced into your life, you have the right to hold them accountable for your losses. 

Our dangerous drugs attorneys in New Bern, NC, invite you to work with our team to get justice for conditions caused by a manufacturer’s negligence. Your first case evaluation with our team comes free of charge and can give you a better idea of how you can approach your fight for justice.

Don’t let your right to legal action slip through your fingers. Whitley Law Firm is here to help you hold the right people accountable for your reduced quality of life.