Legal Question in Personal Injury in Maryland
If I have linked a medicine that I took one time seven years ago to my problem, who do I and can I sue? The doctor for not telling me more about the medicine, or the pharmacy company for not knowing all side effects (or is there now a law that pharmacy companies can not be sued?)? Thanks.
1 Answer from Attorneys
You are probably going to be unable to maintain such a suit unless the "problem" to which you refer only presented itself within the 3-year statute of limitations period. So if you first experienced these symptoms soon after taking the medicine, but did nothing to try to link it to the medicine until relatively recently, you will probably not prevail. On the other hand, if you did investigate in a timely manner and the science only recently determined that the medicine in question caused your problem, your suit may be considered timely, but the prescribing physician and pharmacist would argue that the symptoms in question were not known at the time. You should try and arrange an appointment with an experienced medical malpractice attorney who can investigate the issues for you. These cases are handled on a contingent fee basis, so you can do this without expense to you, at least for attorney's fees. No such attorney would take such a case unless they were pretty confident of getting a recovery for you.