Personal Injury Law

Suits Being Settled over Drug Marketing and Tie to Suicides

By Edward Bills

Drug maker Forest Laboratories is in the process of settling a string of lawsuits filed by consumers who accuse Forest of ?concealing a negative pediatric study on Celexa, duping physicians about the drug’s clinical trials, and targeting children in aggressive promotions of Celexa and a sister drug, Lexapro.? Many of the suits claimed children under the influence of the drugs committed suicide or attempted to. The company has settled six cases thus far and expects more to come in the next few months, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on November 02, 2010 (boomark / email).