A Morris County judge approved a $1.1 million settlement on July 30 on behalf of a handicapped child whose mother claimed she received the wrong drug from a pharmacy while pregnant.
Alayna Filliman was prescribed Medrol in a 2-milligram dose for a pulmonary problem in May 2005 when she was five months pregnant. But a Rite Aid pharmacy in her hometown of Lake Hiawatha mistakenly gave her Dexamethasone, which should not be taken during pregnancy, and the 4-milligram dose was 20 times the normal amount for that drug, according to her suit, Filliman v. Rite Aid .
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