Personal Injury Law

Dennis Quaid's Twins Almost Die From Massive Overdose Of Heparin
Supplementing our February 29, 2008 post "Blood Thinner Heparin Tied To Several Deaths", the actor Dennis Quaid appeared on "60 Minutes" last Sunday to reveal every parent's nightmare: He and his wife almost lost their newborn twins last year at Cedar's Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles due to a massive overdose of the blood thinner Heparin, manufactured by Baxter International...

Overdose of Heparin Given to Newborns
Seventeen babies in a Corpus Christi, Texas hospital's neonatal intensive care unit were given overdoses of the blood thinner heparin over the weekend. Christus Spohn Hospital South discovered the mishap on Sunday, two days after most of the newborns were believed to have been given the drug...

Dennis Quaid Sues Baxter for Heparin Overdose
Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly Buffington filed a lawsuit in December 2007 against Baxter Healthcare Corporation, claiming the drug maker was negligent when packaging different doses of the same drug in similar packaging...

Actor Dennis Quaid Sues Drug Maker After Twins Heparin Overdose
Recently, Dennis Quaid's new born twins were mistakenly given 1,000 times the normal dose of the blood-thinning medication Heparin while under treatment for a staph infection. The twins have apparently recovered fully but the Quaid's want Baxter Healthcare Corporation, the maker of Heparin, to fix the packaging so this never happens again and have filed suit to help effectuate that change...

Drug Recall of Heparin
The product recall of Heparin was initiated due to a notification received from the supplier, Scientific Protein Laboratories, disclosing that one lot of Heparin Sodium acquired by B...

Heparin: "We Lost My Dad"
Lexington, NC: More people are learning that Heparin may have caused their loved one's death. Kelly C. says her father was given Heparin right before he fell into a coma from which he never regained consciousness...

Seven Lots of Heparin Recalled
Seven Lots of Heparin Recalled

ReliOn Insulin Syringes Recalled
Risk of Death from Overdose

ETHEX Corp
5 Generic Drugs Recalled Due to Risk of Death From Overdose

Heparin Injections
alleging syringes were contaminated with bacteria.

Medtronic Inc.
stents coated with contaminated heparin recalled