Approximately 245 plaintiffs have filed a Zoloft lawsuit alleging that the antidepressant caused birth defects in their children. The Zoloft lawsuits charge that manufacture Pfizer failed to warn the public and the medical community about the dangers of taking Zoloft during pregnancy. On April 17,... Read More

A study recently published in the medical journal Human Reproduction backs up a number of claims made by patients of the antidepressant Zoloft who have filed lawsuits against drug maker Pfizer. Zoloft is a medication known as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, popularly prescribed for... Read More

A grandmother filed a Zoloft lawsuit on November 28, 2012, in the United States' District Court for the Northern District of Florida (Pensacola). The plaintiff claims that her daughter ingested the SSRI drug during her pregnancy, which caused her grandchild to suffer from serious heart... Read More

Zoloft (generic name: sertraline), manufactured by Pfizer, has been associated with birth defects in infants born to mothers who took the antidepressant medication. The problem has been more common to women who took the medication in the first trimester of their pregnancy. Many women who... Read More

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a study that showed that infants exposed to SSRI drugs such as Zoloft while in the womb are twice as likely as other infants to experience a birth defect known as craniosynostosis. Craniosynostosis is a condition marked... Read More

On November 19, 2012, the Zoloft MDL in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania added a new lawsuit filed by a mother whose child was born with autism as well as life-threatening physical birth defects after Zoloft use during pregnancy. Pfizer did not warn of drug's... Read More