BARTOW, Florida - a jury awarded $ 25.8 million Friday of the family of a cancer patient received a wrong prescription, had a stroke and died a few years later, lawyers said. Beth Hippely remitted warfarin, a blood thinner, in the year 2002 to the treatment of breast cancer. The prescription filled at a Walgreens pharmacy 10 times what was your doctor prescribed court documents said.

The jury Polk County Circuit Court found that the recipe error caused a cerebral hemorrhage which permanent injury, disability and physical pain. The mother of three died in January at the age of 46.

Is wrong a 19-year-old pharmacy technicians with little training, the prescription, according to court documents.

The lawsuit was in 2003 from Hippely, her husband Deane Hippely and their children against the Deerfield, ill.-based Walgreen Co. for negligent breach of duty and wrongful death.

"Beth Hippely died unnecessarily, because this tenfold overdose with warfarin by the pharmacy they trusted their cancer caused to come back with a vengeance and it interrupted all their cancer treatments," said her lawyer, Chris Searcy. "they want justice for nearly five years and this was a case that cried out for justice."

A statement from the company released expressed sympathy for the Hippely family.

"We are really sorry for what by the Hippely family was and we have personally excused," Walgreens spokeswoman Carol Hively said in a statement. "We have and continue to be the leading provider of pharmacy safety initiatives." "We had hoped that the verdict would have been appropriate."

Hively said that the company had not decided if it would be the decision appeal.

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