Daily business review

07 April 2011

A jury is a woman almost US$ 1.95 million for a brain injury claims drugs as a result of confusion.

Minnie Guider, then 90, was found in 2008 in a bad state of physical and mental. She was taken to a hospital where her condition despite doctors unable to find what wrong with it improved. Three weeks later she became confused and disoriented and had to be rehospitalized. It was discovered that Intramed, a mail-order pharmacy, had mixed up their medicines. Guider claimed their blood glucose causes the wrong medicines, drop both times and caused a brain injury.

Intramed admitted mixing the medication but claimed that it does not violate it. Instead, Defense Guider argued an independent transient ischaemic attack or mini-stroke suffered.

Case: Guider v. Intramed Inc., no. 09-68777(12)

Plaintiff lawyers: Todd R. McPharlin and Eric Rosen, Kelley/Uustal, Fort Lauderdale

Lawyers defending: Barry A. postman and Jami L. Gursky, Cole Scott & Kissane, West Palm Beach and plantation

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