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Jun 16, 2001 · The jury awarded $6.4m (£4.6m) to the surviving family of Donald Schell, a 60 year old man who killed his wife, daughter, and granddaughter before killing himself.
- Deborah Josefson
- 2001
Jun 6, 2001 · Relatives of Donald Schell, 60, claim the man, originally from Gillette, Wyo., took twoPaxil tablets before shooting his wife, their daughter, hisgranddaughter and himself to death on Feb. 13, 1998. The survivors' lead attorney, Andy Vickery, had asked the juryto award a total of $25 million in damages.
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There was no question that Donald Schell was depressed. Before taking Paxil, he had been on other antidepressants including Prozac. Furthermore, there seemed to be no other motivation for the murder-suicide. He had no obvious marital problems and clearly adored his daughter and granddaughter. So the pivotal question of the trial was: Did taking Pax...
Vickery won a critical pre-trial battle over SmithKline's motion to exclude or limit testimony from Vickery's two expert witnesses, British psychiatrist Dr. David Healy and Dr. John T. Maltsburger, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Healy has written and lectured widely on his view that all SSRIs - Prozac, Paxi...
So far, only a few lawyers have taken on antidepressant cases, which can be time-consuming and expensive. One of those lawyers died, another retired and a third cut back her cases. That leaves Vickery and Murgatroyd, who devote much of their time to SSRIs. In terms of expense, the Paxil trial cost Vickery's firm more than $50,000. Both lawyers have...
May 19, 2001 · Glaxo Smith Kline makes the antidepressant drug Paxil, which Donald Schell, 60, had allegedly been taking before the murders-suicide on Feb. 13, 1998, in Gillette. Police estimated the victims...
Jun 8, 2001 · Wyoming jury awards $6.4 million to family of Donald Schell, man who killed three relatives--his wife, his daughter and granddaughter--and then himself, after taking antidepressant Paxil; Paxil...
Tim Tobin's wife and baby daughter had their lives stolen when his father in law, Donald Schell, shot them dead shortly after taking Paxil (Seroxat). He then turned the gun on his wife and then on himself. The court ruled it was the drug that made him kill and Tim was awarded $6.5 million in damages from GlaxoSmithkline who make Seroxat (Paxil).
