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

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

Pharmacy is a 19-year-old technician, with little training, wrong prescription, court documents loudly.

The action was in the year 2003 of 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 with warfarin overdose by the pharmacy they trusted their cancer caused to come back with a vengeance and it all her cancer treatments, interrupted" her lawyer Chris Searcy said. "they have, justice for almost five years and this was a case that cried out for justice."

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

"Really what the family Hippely has gone through, and we have sorry 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 the decision appeal.

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