Pfizer Moves for Summary Judgment Claiming Plaintiff's Failure-to-Warn Claim Preempted by Federal Law

BATON ROUGE, La. - Pfizer moved for summary judgment in a Zoloft-related suicide case claiming that the plaintiff's state-law failure-to-warn claims are preempted by federal law. Mary K. Miles, et al. v. Pfizer, Inc. No. 03-691-B-M1 (M.D. La.).

The manufacturers' Dec. 23, 2003, motion stated that the plaintiff's allegation that the manufacturer failed to adequately warn about the drug's association with suicide conflicts with the FDA's finding that no scientific basis exists for SSRI-caused suicide warnings. Pfizer also contended that any additional warnings aside from those already approved by the FDA would be false, misleading and potentially harmful to the …