You should certainly consult with an experienced personal injury attorney as soon as possible to discuss your daughter’s case.

To prove your case you would have to establish a link between the Zoloft use and your daughter’s suicide attempt. In your case, the short time between the beginning of her course of Zoloft and the onset of her symptoms should heavily weigh in your favor.

You should be able to bring an action against Pfizer, the manufacturer of Zoloft. Against Pfizer, you would have to show that your daughter took the Zoloft, and that it caused her suicide attempt. The FDA never approved the use of Zoloft for treating pediatric depression. The only pediatric use Zoloft has is to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder. Pfizer has, however, argued that Zoloft is safe and effective for use in treating pediatric depression, citing several studies which they sponsored. The analysis used in these studies, however, has been found to be faulty. In fact, if the data is correctly analyzed, a child on Zoloft is four times more likely to attempt suicide.

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You may also have a case against your daughter’s doctor. In that claim, you would have to show that the doctor was negligent in prescribing Zoloft and in failing to see the warning signs of sucidality. You would then need to show that his action/inaction caused or contributed to your daughter’s suicide attempt. The doctor should have known that Zoloft had not been approved for use in children for treating depression. Furthermore, her symptom of becoming extremely agitated should have been a red flag to your doctor that she was in danger of suicidal actions. This symptom, called akathisia, has been noted as a precursor to a return to depression and possible suicide attempts. Your attorney will help you decide how best to proceed.