NEC has substantial racial disparity.” Mead Johnson disputes its product, Enfamil Premature Infant Formula 24 Cal, caused Chance’s NEC. They noted all of the neonatologists who are scheduled ...

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 ...

The Whitfield family legal case was just one of many still pending relating to the necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) disease.

after being fed the company’s Enfamil Premature 24 product. The disease damages the stomach and tends to affect premature babies. A jury in an Illinois court ruled Reckitt had failed to warn ...

In closing arguments on Wednesday, plaintiff's lawyer Timothy Cronin asked jurors for $6 billion in punitive damages.

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.

Mead Johnson had already been ordered to pay $60m in damages in March to Jasmine Watson, the mother whose baby died after being fed the company’s Enfamil Premature 24 brand of formula.