Seroquel Lawsuit Defeat
Tough blow today for victims who have filed lawsuits pending in the Seroquel MDL in Orlando. Defendant AstraZeneca won a huge victory with a dismissal of two Seroquel lawsuits claiming its antipsychotic drug Seroquel causes diabetes and other health consequences.
This "bellwether" MDL trial was set to start February 2, 2009 in Orlando, Florida where the vast majority of the current Seroquel lawsuits are parked. Judge Anne Conway threw out the cases saying at a hearing that they "just didn't meet the standards" to go to trial. Specifically, and I think bizarrely considering the medical evidence of the link between diabetes and Seroquel, the court found the plaintiffs could not prove that the former Seroquel users diabetes was linked to Seroquel.
Update: I might have gone off a little to quickly on this story. It seems like the finding was a lack of specific causation between the plaintiffs' diabetes in this case and Seroquel. You can look at the Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog post that has a Seroquel update here.
