 Lawsuit ... Dennis Quaid, here with Hugh Grant in American Dreamz, is suing Baxter Healthcare Corp over his twins` overdose / File photo |
US actor Dennis Quaid is suing the maker of the drugs his infant twins overdosed on, but there are no signs that he will take action against doctors.
According to court documents leaked on TMZ.com, Quaid and his wife are suing Baxter Healthcare Corporation because the Heparin drug that his twin babies, born by surrogate, overdosed on was “unreasonably dangerous”.
The Illinois Cook County Court documents filed by Dennis Quaid’s lawyers also accused the manufacturer of negligence after it “failed” to recall, repackage, issue warnings and produce a “market solution” when it knew that “fatal medication errors had occurred with children”.
“As a proximate result of the … unreasonably dangerous conditions… minor plaintiffs Zoe Grace Quaid and Thomas Boone Quaid, suffered and continue to suffer injuries of a pecurinary nature,” the court documents uploaded to TMZ.com said.
“(The Quaids) seek an amount in excess of (US) $50,000 ($57,000) against the defendant, Baxter Healthcare Corporation.”
According to the documents, the “medical error” was made by staff at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital who gave the children Heparin instead of the Heparin flush medication designed for children, because the drug company had failed to make the labels different.
“Both… had a blue background colour to its label,” the documents said.
“Since a medical error in administration could lead to a dangerous or fatal result, the vials should have been in completely distinguishable size and shape.”
The twins, who became seriously ill after being given the overdose when they were just two weeks old last month, were still recovering in hospital.
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