Over 300 plaintiffs have chosen to file a birth defects lawsuit after using Zoloft. Their cases allege that birth defects and other injuries occurred as a result of the mothers’ use of the antidepressant medication during pregnancy. Introduced in 1991 by manufacturer Pfizer, Zoloft is... Read More

New studies are indicating that side effects related to the antidepressant Zoloft could manifest in children as problems in language development. The study was published online yb the Proceedings the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on October 8. It explored... Read More

A New Jersey woman filed a new Zoloft litigation on October 17, 2012 seeking damages against manufacturer Pfizer, Inc. According to the filing the woman took the antidepressant Zoloft during her pregnancy and it caused multiple birth defects in her newborn son. The case was... Read More

19 Zoloft-related lawsuits have been remanded to state court by a federal judge. The judge ruled that the cases were not joined fraudulently because they shared a similar series of occurrences with one another. All 19 of the plaintiffs involved in these lawsuits took the... Read More

Persistent pulmonary hypertension in the newborn (PPHN) is one of the Zoloft side effects that occurs when the mother takes the drug during pregnancy. Poor circulation in an infant preventing blood from making its way through the lungs is known as PPHN. When this occurs,... Read More

In a lawsuit against Pfizer that was recently added to the Zoloft MDL, parents Michael and Shana Reid of Tennessee charge that their daughter was born with birth defects resulting from Zoloft. The Reids originally filed their lawsuit on June 8, 2012, in the Court... Read More

A lawsuit filed by Zoloft lawyers on September 6, 2012, joined the multidistrict litigation (MDL) of lawsuits against Zoloft located in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on October 2, 2012. Originally filed in the Northern District of California, the plaintiff is alleged to have been... Read More

A new study has linked an increased risk of both gastrointestinal bleeding and stroke to the popular SSRI drug Zoloft. The study, which was published in the British Medical Journal, has pointed out several new side effects of the drug, which has already become controversial... Read More