Why is GlaxoSmith Kline, or GSK, losing Paxil birth defects lawsuits?

Victims of Paxil birth defects are legally entitled to seek financial compensation for their losses, including medical costs, and many are filing Paxil lawsuits. Now Americans in states across America can get help in Paxil lawsuits for Paxil birth defects via LawyerPaxil.com.

To date, such lawsuits are winning. In fact, GlaxoSmithKline, the British pharmaceutical corporation which creates Paxil, has settled a reported 200 lawsuits in victims’ favor so far. Such Paxil lawsuits have asserted that the antidepressant drug, when used by pregnant women, caused birth defects in their newborn babies, and GSK is thus negligent and liable for their losses.
 

What kinds of birth defects does Paxil cause? Along with lung, brain and other vital organ ailments, babies often have suffered Paxil heart defects requiring surgery -- or even surgeries. Such catastrophic defective drug injuries certainly can merit a lawsuit, and one such lawsuit delivered a $2.5 million jury award in a Philadelphia Paxil trial.

Since that verdict in October of 2009, GSK has settled many more cases out of court, ostensibly in victims’ favor. Why are victims winning while GSK loses?

One reason is that the Philadelphia trial produced internal GSK memos showing that it had tried to cover up any test results which might reveal potential dangers from Paxil, a defective drug for which GSK has made billions of dollars in profits.

Another factor that’s hurt GSK and helped victims’ cases is that victims are infant children. A giant corporation that’s believed to harm babies does not tend to be given the benefit of a doubt in such lawsuits, especially when evidence undercuts its case. GSK claims innocence, but the only real innocents here are the infants born with Paxil birth defects.

Besides, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned physicians in 2005 that women using Paxil antidepressant drugs during pregnancy were twice as likely to have children with birth defects than women who used other antidepressants. That, too, weighs against GSK’s claims that its drug causes no harm.

Meanwhile, GSK is reaping about $3 billion in yearly sales for Paxil, a drug it continues to produce and market despite the serious and severe harm it is causing to the offspring of women who take Paxil while pregnant.

Indeed, there are good reasons that the Philadelphia jury took only seven hours to deliberate in the major case. GSK has been proven to be negligent, and it must pay for such negligence.

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