Quaid vs. Baxter Healthcare Corporation

Brief Fact Summary
Plaintiffs, Dennis and Kimberly Quaid parents and next friends of Zoe Grace and Thomas Boone Quaid, brought an action in the circuit court of Cook County against defendant, Baxter Healthcare Corporation alleging negligence and strict liability for administering an almost fatal dose of Heparin instead of the prescribed dose of Hep-Lock to the infant twins Zoe and Thomas Quaid after hospitalization for a staph infection. Plaintiffs appealed.

Synopsis Rule of Law
Strict Liability was pursued due to the fact of similar packaging of medication which was mistakenly administered to the Plaintiffs. Strict Liability, also known as absolute liability is the legal responsibility for damages, or injury, even if the person found strictly liable was not at fault or negligent. In this case, defectively labeled products were dispensed incorrectly and could have caused fa
Negligence was also charged because it was an oversight not only by the person who had administered the medication, but also the Corporation that distributed the vials to this facility, because the medications were extremely similar in shape and labeling but were two very