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 ...

In the first case to go to trial in March, Reckitt Benckiser was ordered to pay $60 million in damages to a mother whose premature child died after consuming the company’s Enfamil baby formula.

Abbott said in July it may have to pull Similac for premature infants off shelves if juries continue ... jurors weighed allegations about both Abbott’s Similac formula and Reckitt’s Enfamil in a ...

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 ...

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.