Zoloft Defendants Urge MDL Court To Reject Plaintiffs’ Latest Causation Expert

Zoloft plaintiffs’ new proposed expert doesn’t offer a reliable scientific basis for his opinion that prenatal exposure to the antidepressant causes cardiac birth defects, defendants Pfizer Inc. and Greenstone LLC told the court overseeing multidistrict litigation (In re Zoloft (Sertraline Hydrochloride) Prod. Liab. Litig., E.D. Pa., 12-2342, motion filed 5/15/15).

Nicholas Jewell Ph.D., a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, “tortures the data and deviates from well-accepted scientific principles in order to support his preconceived litigation opinion that Zoloft is a cause of cardiac birth defects,” they argued to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern ...