Big Pharma - Big Profits - Big Penalties?

Check out the article entitled, "Jury Trials in 2008 Expected to Expose SSRI Maker's Dirty Secrets", by Evelyn Pringle.

Here is a short excerpt followed by the link.

"In 2008, at least a dozen jury trials are scheduled all over the country for Paxil suicide-related cases, all of which allege that Glaxo failed to warn consumers and doctors about the known risk of suicide associated with the drug. Many of these cases will be tried by Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, the national law firm with the longest track record of handling SSRI cases.

"Going into the trials, Baum Hedlund will be armed with the largest collection of internal GSK documents, depositions of GSK employees and experts, as well as the fruits of the firm's investigation of antidepressants and their makers for the past decade and a half.

"During litigation, virtually every Paxil-related document obtained by Baum Hedlund was stamped "confidential" by Glaxo and sealed under a court order. However, through a series of legal challenges, the firm was able to unseal many of the documents, in part, by forcing Glaxo to admit that they did not contain trade secrets and should never have been sealed to begin with."

http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/genera_evelyn_p_080122_jury_trials_in_2008_.htm