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Paxil Spit Pill Lawsuit Settlement Proposed
Sunday, March 29th, 2009The Paxil “split pill” class action lawsuit could be close to settlement.
If approved, the $28 million settlement will be split between consumers who paid for their Paxil and insurance companies seeking to be reimbursed for their expenditures. The amount each class member recovers will depend on how many defective pills they bought, with a maximum recovery of $150 per person. A final approval hearing will be held on July 10, 2009.
The Paxil “split pill” lawsuit alleges that Paxil “controlled release” (CR) tablets made between April 1, 2002 and March 4, 2005, contained a manufacturing defect that caused them to split apart. According to the complaint, Paxil CR tablets are intended to deliver the active ingredient over a period of time, and not all at once. When one splits apart, the outside coat breaks up and the drug is released while the tablets are still in the stomach. Patients end up with all of the active ingredient, without the benefits of the controlled-release, and received the entire dose at once. Or they get only the controlled-release ingredient without the active ingredients, the complaint says.
Under the settlement, GlaxoSmithKline denies liability and all of the claims in the lawsuit.
