Woman wins $4 million in Prempro breast cancer trial 
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: April 27, 2012
Tags: breast cancer, drug litigation, hormone replacement therapy, HRT litigation, Pfizer, Prempro, Wyeth
A 65-year-old elementary school principal has won a $4 million verdict in Connecticut federal court against the maker of the menopause drug Prempro for causing her breast cancer.
Lawsuit alleges drug Effexor caused fatal birth defect
Published: February 17, 2012
Tags: birth defects, drug litigation, Effexor, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Pfizer, product liability, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
In what is believed to be the first lawsuit of its kind, an Ohio woman is claiming that her ingestion of the popular anti-depressant Effexor during pregnancy caused a fatal birth defect in her daughter.
Ariz. woman sues heartburn drug makers over bone fractures
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: December 23, 2011
Tags: acid reflux, AstraZeneca, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Nexium, Pfizer, product liability, proton pump inhibitors
An Arizona woman has filed a product liability lawsuit alleging that she suffered bone fractures in her feet as a result of taking popular heartburn drugs made by AstraZeneca, Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies.
Suit filed in Illinois alleges Zoloft causes birth defects
Published: December 12, 2011
Tags: Pfizer, SSRI, suicide, Zoloft
The ingestion of Zoloft during pregnancy caused birth defects in the children of eight couples, according to a lawsuit filed in Illinois state court.
Pfizer ordered to pay $72.6 million in Prempro case
Published: December 7, 2011
Tags: breast cancer, Pennsylvania, Pfizer, Prempro
Pfizer Inc. must pay $72.6 million in damages to three women who said they developed breast cancer after taking the company’s menopause drugs, a Philadelphia jury decided.
Zoloft birth defect suit filed in Ohio
Published: October 14, 2011
Tags: anti-depressants, birth defects, defective manufacturing, design defect, failure to warn, FDA, Pfizer, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRI, Zoloft
A woman’s ingestion of the antidepressant Zoloft during pregnancy caused a fatal birth defect in her child, according to a new lawsuit filed against drug make Pfizer in Ohio state court.
Wyeth accused of using sham patents to stop generic Effexor
Published: July 13, 2011
Tags: antitrust, Effexor XR, generic drugs, patent litigation, Pfizer, Wyeth
An antitrust lawsuit filed in federal court in Mississippi alleges that Wyeth Pharmaceuticals used fraudulently obtained patents as part of a scheme to delay the introduction of generic versions of the anti-depressant Effexor XR.
Report: Chantix risks underestimated
Published: May 27, 2011
Tags: Avandia, Chantix, drug litigation, drug safety, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Pfizer, suicide
A product liability watchdog claims that the risks of Pfizer’s quit-smoking drug Chantix have been underestimated in the latest reporting by the Food and Drug Administration.
Suit blames stop-smoking drug for killings
Published: May 11, 2011
Tags: Chantix, murder, Pennsylvania, Pfizer, suicide
The fathers of two people killed in a western Pennsylvania murder-suicide claim that a smoking cessation drug is to blame.
Pfizer said to pay $330 million in Prempro settlement
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: February 10, 2011
Tags: breast cancer, monopause, Pfizer, Prempro, prescription drug
Pfizer Inc. agreed to pay about $330 million to resolve claims that its Prempro menopause drug caused breast cancer, in the first large-scale settlements in eight years of litigation, two people familiar with the accords said.
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