Drugstore Pays Suit Settlement
CVS Pharmacy will pay $4,000 to a Carlisle family as part of a lawsuit settlement stemming from an incorrect prescription.
Cumberland County Judge J. Wesley Oler signed a settlement order in favor of Daniel Madio II and Tina Madio, whose 4-year-old son, Benjamin, will receive $2,768.27 after legal costs.
The boy will have access to the money after he turns 18.
The suit, filed in 2004, said the pharmacy on South West Street in Carlisle dispensed a Zantac refill for the boy’s gastroesophageal reflux condition. When the parents got it home, they noticed the medication tasted different than a previous prescription had.
But they thought it was just flavored differently and gave the boy most of the medication before finally taking it back to the pharmacy, where a pharmacist determined the prescription was labeled incorrectly and it was actually Zyrtec, an allergy medication.