Judge Breaks Link Between Zoloft Manufacturer, Healthcare Providers

ORLANDO, Fla. - The wife of a man who took his own life after taking Zoloft failed to show that the doctors who prescribed the drug administered it as part of a commercial venture with the drug's manufacturer - a strategy aimed at keeping the physician defendants in the product liability case. Torrence v. Pfizer Inc., et al., No. 07-199 (M.D. Fla.).

In an opinion issued March 14, Judge Patricia C. Fawsett of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida held that, under state law, the operative transaction that occurs in a prescription drug exchange occurs between …