Abbott Laboratories and a unit of Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc were cleared by a jury over claims they hid risks their premature-infant ... that found its preterm baby formula was safe.

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.

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 ...

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

Earlier this year, the firm suffered a blow when a court ruled in March that it would have to pay £46million ($60million) in ...

in damages to the mother of a premature baby who died of NEC after being fed its Enfamil baby formula. 'There are still plenty of outstanding cases so this issue will not go away for Reckitt ...