Pfizer Wins Second Trial Over Zoloft, Birth-Defect Link

June 12, 2015, 3:52 PM UTC

Pfizer Inc.'s warnings about the risks of its Zoloft antidepressant were adequate to clear the drugmaker in a second trial over alleged links between the medicine and birth defects (Robinson v. Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., Pa. Ct. Com. Pl., 14123047, verdict 6/11/14).

A jury in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas June 11 rejected a woman’s claims that Pfizer officials hid the alleged risks.

The verdict may dissuade other Zoloft users from suing over the birth-defect claims. Pfizer faces more than 1,000 such suits.

“This verdict affirms that the Zoloft label contains adequate, science-based information on the ...

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