Are you kidding me? The lawyers are going to sue whom? [View all]
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/industries/container-ship-owner-sues-pharmacists-says-meds-led-pilot-to-crash-in-san-francisco-bay/2012/04/25/gIQAIwovgT_story.html
AN FRANCISCO — The owners and operators of a container ship that slammed into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 2007 and spilled thousands of gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay have sued the Northern California pharmacists they claim negligently dispensed prescription drugs to the pilot of the Cosco Busan.
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In their lawsuit, they maintain the pharmacy that furnished Cota with medication should foot some of the bill because pharmacists allegedly did not warn Cota about combining drugs, consulted his doctors or contacted pilot licensing authorities, the newspaper said.
The lawsuit does not list the drugs Cota took or say why he was prescribed them, but cites an e-mail an unidentified pharmacy worker allegedly sent the Coast Guard after the November 2007 accident, advising investigators to “Check John Cota for prescription drugs.”
After investigating the accident, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that Cota’s cognitive abilities had been degraded by prescription drug use. The board also faulted Cota, who had been a licensed pilot for 27 years, for choosing to sail in heavy fog, misreading the ship’s radar and navigation charts and failing to share his navigation plan’s with the captain.
Putting aside the horribly written second excerpted paragraph, does anybody really think the pharmacists who filled his prescriptions have liability here?
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