Legal Opinion
Miller v. Pfizer, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 4, 2004No. 02-3092PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARTZ, Circuit Judge.
Matthew Miller died at the age of thirteen, one week after beginning to take sertraline, an antidepressant drug marketed as “Zoloft.” His parents sued Pfizer, the manufacturer of Zoloft, for wrongful death, claiming that Zoloft caused Matthew to commit suicide.
The Millers hired Dr. David Healy, who proposed to testify that Zoloft may cause suicide and had in fact caused Matthew to commit suicide. Applying standards outlined in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 113 S.Ct. 2786, 125 L.Ed.2d 469 (1993), and its progeny for determining whether expert…
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