Heparin personal injury suit
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
A personal injury lawsuit was filed against Camden, N.J.-based Baxter Healthcare in federal court in New Jersey, according to New York-based law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein. The plaintiff in the law suit claims to have suffered a near fatal adverse reaction from Baxter's contaminated heparin prescription blood thinner. The complaint seeks damages for physical pain and medical expenses, along with punitive damages to prevent Baxter from "similar wrongdoing in the future," according to the firm's April 3 release. Baxter came under fire after its failure to inspect a Chinese manufacturer that was the source of an ingredient used in heparin products that may be connected with hundreds of adverse events and four deaths (1"The Tan Sheet" Feb. 25, 2008, In Brief)...