Claims that Paxil Caused Fetus’s Death Time-Barred, Pa. Appellate Court Affirms

PHILADELPHIA — A suit brought by a woman who says Paxil caused her unborn fetus to die is barred by Pennsylvania’s two-year statute of limitations, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has affirmed, finding the plaintiff failed to show that the limitations period was tolled by fraudulent concealment.

On Nov. 27, the Superior Court found the trial court did not err in ruling that fraudulent concealment can consist only of misrepresentations directed to a specific plaintiff.

Joanne Thomas sued GlaxoSmithKline in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on Nov. 27, 2007, alleging that her ingestion of Paxil while pregnant caused …