Drug Death – Confidential settlement in Lee County

David Marsh and J.D. Marsh represented the mother of a healthy, 25-year-old woman who died two weeks after getting a pedicure at a nail salon. MRB attorneys argued that the nail technician improperly cut the young woman’s toes causing them to bleed. One toe became infected and she was prescribed the antibiotic Bactrim by a physician. Unfortunately, she had an adverse reaction to the Bactrim. Her symptoms included chills, fatigue, high fever, back pain, head ache and skin rash. The young woman went to see a different physician in her hometown; that physician told her the Bactrim was not causing her problems, gave her more Bactrim and instructed her to keep taking it. She died less than a week later due to Bactrim-induced liver injury.