Posted by TotalInjury.com Staff Writer | Posted in Personal Injury Cases in the News
In an Illinois personal injury case, a jury determined that Walgreens was responsible for $31 million in damages after filling one man’s prescription incorrectly. Leonard Kulisek went to Walgreens to fill a prescription for his gout medication, but was instead given diabetes medicine. The mistaken medication caused Kulisek’s health to quickly decline, and he later died after extensive kidney failure.
Through the course of the Illinois personal injury trial, it was determined that the pharmacist responsible for the mistake suffered from an addiction to pain killers, which he stole from his own pharmacy. The jury’s damages will go to a friend of Kulisek’s and his family, and it was Kulisek himself who filed the Illinois personal injury suit before he passed away.
While Walgreens admitted that a mistake occurred, the company claimed that Kulisek had a preexisting kidney condition. The jury disagreed. An appeal of the Illinois personal injury verdict by Walgreens is possible, and may include new information about a potentially ineligible jury member.
