The Whitfield family legal case was just one of many still pending relating to the necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) disease.
A jury found Abbott Laboratories and Mead Johnson, owned by U.K.-based Reckitt Benckiser, not responsible for a young boy's intestinal disease, the result of a lawsuit that alleged the companies ...
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In closing arguments on Wednesday, plaintiff's lawyer Timothy Cronin asked jurors for $6 billion in punitive damages.
In the first case to go to trial in March, Reckitt Benckiser was ordered to pay $60 million in damages to a mother whose ...
The decision marks the first victory for the companies as they face more than 1,000 similar cases and previously lost trials, one of which ended with a $500 million verdict.