Many Horn Law clients, ranging from infants to the elderly, have suffered long-term injury or wrongful death due to medication errors. Almost all of the firm's cases involve preventable medication errors that occur at national pharmacy chains or institutional health care facilities such as hospitals and nursing homes.

In almost every instance, medication errors involve human errors. For example, health care practitioners often fail to ensure that the right patient receives the right drug in the correct dosage through the proper administration. Other contributing factors include:

• Environmental distractions - increasing consumer demand and work interruptions such as ringing telephones and high noise levels, especially in big-box pharmacies
• Staffing issues - too few employees, many or all of whom are improperly trained
• Procedural breakdown - policies, procedures, and protocols designed to enhance safety are not followed

Add it all up, and you've got a growing problem with potentially fatal consequences. Medication errors are among the nation's leading causes of death, killing more people each year than motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. And many experts believe that for every reported medication error, there are many more "near misses" that patients may never know about. Proudly serving Kansas City, Missouri, our medication error lawyers can help if you or a loved one has suffered as a result of pharmaceutical malpractice.