Attention Missouri Celexa or Lexapro Consumers!

If your child took Celexa or Lexapro between 2001 and 2009 and was under the age of 18 at the time he/she took it, you may have a claim against the manufacturer, Forest Labs. Please contact us if you are interested in learning more.  1-800-827-0087

Forest Labs, the manufacturer of the antidepressants Celexa and Lexapro, paid the government a settlement in 2010 because it illegally promoted Celexa for use in children and adolescents despite the fact it had not been approved for marketing in the United States.  The Justice Department sued Forest Labs because it is illegal for a pharmaceutical company to promote a drug through “off-label marketing,” which means for uses that have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Forest Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Forest Labs, based in St. Louis, Missouri, also was penalized for only publicizing positive Celexa study results in adolescents to doctors, while choosing to withhold the negative results. The company pled guilty to several crimes, including misbranding Celexa by marketing the antidepressant drug for use in children from 1998 to 2002 and paying kickbacks to doctors to encourage them to prescribe the drugs.

Our law firm is looking for a class representative to help in a similar consumer fraud class action against Forest Labs and Forest Pharmaceuticals in the state of Missouri. 

If your child took Celexa or Lexapro between 2001 and 2009 in Missouri, was under the age of 18 at the time he/she took it, and you paid for the prescriptions of Celexa or Lexapro for your child, you may qualify to be the next class representative in a class action in Missouri.

What is a class action? 

A class action is a lawsuit filed by one or more people (class representatives) on behalf of themselves and a larger group of people "who are similarly situated."  Some people confuse class actions with a group of lawsuits filed by a group of people involved in the same accident. For example, let’s say everyone involved in a plane crash suffered some sort of injury. Some passengers had scrapes and bruises or broken bones, while others might have lost limbs or suffered brain damage. While everyone was, indeed, on the same plane, they don’t each have identical injuries so they cannot file a “class action.” They have to file individual lawsuits against the airline. However, everyone negatively affected by the same bank overcharge or false advertising by a company trying to sell a bogus product, can file a class action against that company.

In a Celexa/Lexapro consumer fraud class action, the parent of a child who took either drug while a minor can represent the entire population of parents whose children took either drug between 2001 and 2009, in a class action lawsuit against Forest.

If you are interested in becoming a class representative for a class action against Forest Labs and Forest Pharmaceuticals, please contact our law firm at 800-827-0087 or via our online form.

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