Doctors' Uncertainty About Neurological Link Saves Lipitor Case

NEW YORK - A state court judge has rejected an attempt by Pfizer Inc. to have a Lipitor case thrown out because the plaintiff failed to file his lawsuit within two years of learning that his neurological condition may have been caused by the drug. Wilson v. Pfizer Inc., No. 107932/06 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., New York Cty.).

New York County Supreme Court Justice Martin Shulman said in a Feb. 21 decision that questions of fact remain as to whether plaintiff Charles Wilson should have identified Lipitor as the cause of his peripheral neuropathy, especially since the neurologist who treated him …