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A Florida appeals court has upheld a jury decision in a lower court to award $3.3 million in damages to the family of a woman who died from a medication error.

The original lawsuit was filed by the family of Beth Hippely, who died from a cerebral hemorrhage and paralysis after consuming a prescription drug dispensed at a Walgreens pharmacy.

Hippely’s family claims a teenage pharmacy technician gave Hippely a dosage of a blood thinner medication ten times more powerful than she had been prescribed. As a result, Hippely began hemorrhaging in her brain, became paralyzed, and later died from the overdose. She was taking the medication, Warfarin, as part of her breast cancer treatment.

The Hippely’s case first went to trial in 2007 and the jury sided in favor of the family, awarding them $3.3 million. Walgreens later appealed the verdict. Last month, the court of appeals affirmed the lower court’s ruling to award to Hippely's family compensation.