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.
DENVER — Denver7 is in the community after noticing that some types of Enfamil infant formula were running low at stores in the Denver metro area. After searching for answers, we learned there is no ...
Abbott Laboratories and a unit of Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc were cleared by a jury over claims they hid risks their ...
Reckitt saw sales surpass expectations in the third quarter as the consumer giant was boosted by healthcare brands, including ...
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 ...
Abbott Laboratories and a unit of Reckitt Benckiser Group were cleared by a jury over claims they hid risks in their premature-infant formulas can cause a bowel disease that severely sickened a baby ...
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 Whitfield family legal case was just one of many still pending relating to the necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) disease.
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.
Shares of Abbott, which makes the Similac formula, rose 5.4% to $ ... in compensation related to the death of a premature baby that was fed its Enfamil Premature 24 product. Nearly 1,000 such ...