Medi-Stat, Inc. v. Kusturin

Sam Ed Gibson, Special Justice.

Timothy Cowan went to a Medi-Stat, Inc. clinic for a prescription and a medical clearance to participate in a court-ordered alcohol rehabilitation program using the drug Antabuse. Cowan began Antabuse therapy on December 12,1985. On February 12,1986, he was admitted to a hospital where he died twelve days later of hepatitic (liver) failure resulting from his use of Antabuse.

Appellees sued Medi-Stat, Inc. (Medi-Stat) and Dr. Michael Eades on the basis of negligence in prescribing Antabuse and in following Cowan’s course with the drug. The trial court denied…