Mom to sue Paxil maker over daughter’s birth defect
March 6th, 2008 Posted in Litigation/Lawsuits, NewsWhen Faith Gibson’s daughter Meah was born with a hole in her heart in September 2005 she thought it was just the bad luck of the draw.
The Surrey mom held onto that belief throughout seven months of hospital visits, which didn’t end until well after the surgery that repaired her little girl’s heart defect.
But last October, the story of Katie Jane Bennison caught her eye. Ms. Bennison filed a writ against the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for failing to warn her of the risk of heart defects in newborns while she took the anti-anxiety drug Paxil during pregnancy — the same drug Gibson had taken while pregnant.
A very big, yet sad coincidence that resulted in legal action
