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IN RE: ZOLOFT (SERTRALINE HYDROCHLORIDE) PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION

  1. September 18, 2015

    Pfizer, FDA Updating Pregnancy Caution On Zoloft Label

    Pfizer Inc. is in talks with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to update the label on its antidepressant Zoloft to acknowledge studies showing increased heart defect risks in children whose mothers took the drug early in their pregnancies, but the drugmaker stressed Friday that the proposal was not prompted by new data or litigation.

  2. September 01, 2015

    Judge Urged To Ax 'Tortured' Zoloft Birth Defect Testimony

    A federal judge was urged during a hearing in Philadelphia on Tuesday to find that an expert witness had relied on what an attorney described as "tortured" data in order to reach his conclusion that the Pfizer Inc. antidepressant Zoloft could be linked to birth defects.

  3. August 07, 2015

    Product Liability Cases To Watch In The Second Half Of 2015

    Attorneys following the General Motors ignition switch defect litigation are particularly interested in the scope of Jenner & Block chairman Anton Valukas' upcoming deposition, while trial lawyers will pay close attention to the first bellwether case in the Lipitor multidistrict litigation as well as the performance of the Zoloft plaintiffs' key expert witness. Here, Law360 eyes the cases product liability attorneys will be tracking in the second half of the year.

  4. July 21, 2015

    Zoloft MDL Plaintiffs Agree To Pull Birth Defect Reports

    Pfizer Inc. and plaintiffs suing the company in multidistrict litigation over birth defects allegedly caused by the antidepressant Zoloft agreed in Pennsylvania federal court Monday to strike reports from two experts whose opinions linking the drug to deformities were already deemed inadmissible.

  5. July 15, 2015

    Pfizer Says Zoloft Plaintiffs Stirring 'False Emergency'

    Pfizer Inc. on Wednesday shot back at plaintiffs in federal multidistrict litigation in Pennsylvania court over the alleged birth defect risks of its antidepressant Zoloft, saying that it doesn't oppose their bid for its communications with authors of key studies, but that the plaintiffs were using their motion to create a "false emergency" in the case. 

  6. July 14, 2015

    Zoloft Plaintiffs Seek Pfizer's Contacts With Study Authors

    Plaintiffs targeting Pfizer Inc. in multidistrict litigation over the alleged cardiac birth defect risks of its antidepressant Zoloft sought Monday to dig into communications between the drugmaker and authors of key studies cited in their case after the Pennsylvania federal court overseeing the case halted Daubert hearings earlier this month.

  7. July 07, 2015

    Judge Ices Zoloft MDL Hearing Over Potential Study Error

    A hearing aimed at assessing the admissibility of cornerstone causation testimony in federal multidistrict litigation over the antidepressant Zoloft's alleged links to birth defects was temporarily put on ice on Tuesday after a question emerged about an error a defense expert claims to have found in a key study.

  8. July 01, 2015

    Pfizer Says Plaintiffs Are Rehashing Nixed Zoloft Testimony

    Pfizer Inc. argued Tuesday that plaintiffs in the federal multidistrict litigation over the antidepressant Zoloft are trying to repackage causation testimony by two experts that was excluded last year as case-specific testimony ahead of bellwether trials scheduled for 2016.

  9. June 15, 2015

    Plaintiffs Say Expert Overcomes Objections In Zoloft MDL

    Plaintiffs in the federal multidistrict litigation over the alleged heart-related birth-defect risks of Pfizer Inc.'s antidepressant Zoloft argued Friday that their expert should be allowed to testify on general causation, claiming the drugmaker did not raise any compelling objection to his methodology.

  10. June 12, 2015

    Pfizer Fights To Keep Expert In Zoloft Birth Defect MDL

    Pfizer Inc. and a generic-drug maker urged a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday to deny plaintiffs' bid to cut an expert witness for the company from multidistrict litigation alleging that Pfizer's antidepressant Zoloft causes coronary birth defects, saying the plaintiffs had misconstrued the expert's role.

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