[muawiyah]

Actually the kid was suffering from severe depression and was on Paxil.

I would suspect that he was also psychotic. After he was caught burning down the highschool he was placed in a special facility for safe keeping.

His lawyer was going to look into the kind of defense you can build for having used Paxil. That seems to have been a mistake. Lots of folks are always leaping to the conclusion that "the drug did it" when, in fact, it's the underlying organic brain damage or other cause of psychotic behavior "that did it".

Prozac and Paxil really can't cure those problems.

This is another case of misdiagnosis where insufficient testing probably played a part. The kid's psychiatrist probably ought to be contacting his malpractice insurance company about now.

No doubt State Farm will! (ROTFLMAO) They have vast teams of specialists in looking for somebody else's deep pockets.

[fiscally_right]

Paxil is bad news.. They say different drugs work for different people, but Paxil definitely changes a person's personality for the worse. My brother was on it for a while and he compared it to the kind of irritability that comes with nicotine withdrawal. [not blaming it on the drug, just as an aside]

[Dog Gone]

Why on earth should State Farm pay for the damage caused by an intentional criminal act? It's against public policy to allow a criminal to get insurance for deliberate acts of destruction.

[CobaltBlue]

Unless the parents are rich, they won't be able to pay this. And I doubt very much that the parents homeowners insurance will pay, either. So the school is screwed.