Judge Refuses To Strike Widow’s Expert’s Testimony On Access To Data

(March 21, 2017, 1:24 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois overseeing a trial claiming that a former Reed Smith partner’s use of the antidepressant Paxil caused him to commit suicide in 2010 on March 20 denied the drug maker’s motion to strike portions of testimony from a plaintiff’s expert of the amount of data he had access to that purportedly showed that suicidal events were underreported during studies (Wendy Dolin v. SmithKline Beechman Corporation, d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, No. 12-cv-6403, N.D. Ill.)....