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Stroke Victim wins more than million

Stroke Victim wins more than $2 million

Thanks to a jury in Broward Circuit Court, a wheel-chair-bound stroke victim is hoping to walk once again. The jury awarded Donna Ricci and her husband, Thomas, $2,165,000 in a seven-year-negligence case against the Parke Davis drug company of New Jersey. Her stroke left much of her body paralyzed after she took birth control pills that the jury decided the company had negligently distributed.

The pills - Norlestrin-150 - were signed for before the clinic actually received them, accordingly to testimony, and they were given to Ricci by a nurse who was not qualified to prescribe them, Larry Ben said.