The judge presiding over the federal Zoloft multidistrict litigation said that she could benefit from a court-appointed, "truly neutral expert," but that it is too early in the life of the litigation for such an expert to be appointed.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania was speaking at the latest status conference Thursday in an MDL in which around 250 plaintiffs so far are prosecuting allegations that women’s use of the popular antidepressant during their pregnancies caused birth defects in their children.
