After drugmaker Pfizer came out swinging against the expert witnesses the plaintiffs want to use to show a causal relationship between Zoloft and birth defects, plaintiffs lawyers said in court papers that their experts’ opinions are admissible.

Lead lawyers Mark Robinson Jr. and Kevin Calcagnie, of Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro Davis, and Dianne Nast, of NastLaw LLC, said in the court filing that Pfizer’s own internal company documents support the general causation opinions of Anick Bérard, a perinatal epidemiologist who studies babies’ exposure to drugs before they are born.

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