Law360, New York (August 03, 2012, 5:47 PM ET) -- A divided Eighth Circuit on Friday revived a couple's suit blaming Eli Lilly & Co.'s antidepressant Cymbalta for their 16-year-old son's suicide, finding the family's physician might have changed his decision to prescribe Cymbalta had it come with adequate warnings from the pharmaceutical giant.
The appeals rejected a lower court’s ruling that Paul and Cynthia Schilf couldn’t win on their failure-to-warn claim because the physician, Dr. Richard G. Briggs, would have prescribed Cymbalta even if he knew of its actual risks at the time. The opinion...
8th Circ. Reopens Suit Over Cymbalta Suicide Risks
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