What would you do if your premature baby could not get the formula they desperately needed? This frightening scenario may ...

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 ...

Abbott makes Similac, and Enfamil is made by Mead Johnson ... is the third involving claims that cow’s milk-based infant formula given to premature babies in hospitals causes NEC.

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

NEC almost exclusively affects premature infants and has an estimated mortality rate of more than 20%. After the verdict and the "overwhelming societal support of infant formula, we think its ...

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 ...

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 Plc were cleared by a jury over claims they hid risks their ...

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.