Paxil Heart Valve Injury Case Transferred to Louisiana

PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania federal judge has granted GlaxoSmithKline’s (NSE: GLAXO) motion to transfer a Paxil injury case to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, ruling that the private and public interest factors weigh in favor of that district because that is where most of the operative facts occurred.

On Oct. 17, Senior District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania noted that the weight of the plaintiff’s choice of forum is lessened because many of the facts of this case, including plaintiff’s ingestion of Paxil and its …