The ruling by a Missouri state court jury is a rare legal win for Abbott Laboratories, maker of Similac formula, and Reckitt, which owns Enfamil formula ... cleared the two infant formula makers ...

Abbott makes Similac, and Enfamil is made by Mead Johnson ... while not approving preterm infant formula, regulates the products, which have been on the market for 40 years.

Baby formula can be expensive ... but some of the highly recommended ones for supplementing breastfeeding include Enfamil Enspire, Similac Pro-Advance, and Gerber Good Start Gentle.

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 CEO ‘Hopeful’ Abbott said in July it may have to pull Similac for premature infants off shelves ... both Abbott’s Similac formula and Reckitt’s Enfamil in a single case.

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 ...

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.

Abbott Laboratories and a unit of Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc were cleared by a jury over claims they hid risks their ...

Shares of Abbott, which makes the Similac formula, rose 5.4% to $119.50 ... related to the death of a premature baby that was fed its Enfamil Premature 24 product. Nearly 1,000 such lawsuits ...

Reckitt saw sales surpass expectations in the third quarter as the consumer giant was boosted by healthcare brands, including Durex condoms and Nurofen.