Plaintiffs alleging that antidepressant Zoloft caused birth defects in babies are asking that drug maker Pfizer be compelled to respond to requests served by the plaintiffs in an initial discovery pool. But the multidistrict litigation special discovery master, Andrew A. Chirls, recommended that the presiding judge not issue the order.
Defendants must provide information about communications between Pfizer and each individual plaintiff’s physicians, including sales representatives and medical liaisons who came in contact with plaintiffs’ treating physicians. But plaintiffs also are asking for material not called for in Judge Cynthia M. Rufe’s pretrial order, such as all prescription information obtained for the antidepressants prescribed by the plaintiffs’ treating physicians, said Chirls, of Fineman Krekstein & Harris in Philadelphia.
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