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November 19, 2012

Pfizer CEO Must Testify in Chantix Trial, Lawyer Says

Quoted from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-16/pfizer-ceo-must-testify-in-chantix-trial-lawyer-says.html

Pfizer CEO Must Testify in Chantix Trial, Lawyer Says

By Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk - Nov 16, 2012 4:22 PM ET

Pfizer Inc.’s top executive must testify in court about claims the company’s anti-smoking drug Chantix causes depression and other psychiatric disorders, a lawyer for an Alabama man suing over the medication said.

Attorneys for Billy Bedsole have subpoenaed Ian Read, Pfizer’s chief executive officer, and two other officials to testify live at the trial of Bedsole’s claims that the anti- smoking drug caused his breakdown and forced him to be institutionalized, said Ernest Cory, one of Bedsole’s lawyers. U.S. District Judge Inge Johnson has denied Pfizer’s request to throw out the subpoenas, Cory added.

The trial, which would be the first patient lawsuit over Chantix to be heard by a jury, is slated for Jan. 22, 2013, in federal court in Florence, Alabama, according to court records.

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