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Jump to full article: Lawyers Weekly USA, 2008-08-25
Author: Nora Lockwood Tooher
Intro: David Collins, a 59-year-old Indiana man, began taking Chantix in October 2007 after his doctor prescribed it to help him stop smoking. . . .
Linda Collins is suing Pfizer, the manufacturer of Chantix, alleging that the company failed to warn consumers that the popular smoking-cessation prescription medication may cause serious psychiatric symptoms, including erratic behavior and suicidal thoughts.
The lawsuit, filed in July in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, is the first of what may be a torrent of claims.
Kristian Rasmussen, a pharmaceutical plaintiffs' attorney who is representing Linda Collins, said his firm, Cory Watson Crowder & Degaris in Birmingham, Ala., has received more than 1,400 inquiries from Chantix users and their families.
In addition to the Collins case, the firm has filed suits in state courts in Louisiana and New York. It has 200 cases, all involving suicides or suicide attempts by Chantix users.
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