by Halley Porter | Sep 9, 2022 | Top Cases, Baby Formula Recall, Samuel Geisler
(Reuters) – The federal judge overseeing mass tort litigation over claims that babies were sickened by formula from an Abbott Laboratories plant closed earlier this year has appointed lawyers at Johnson Becker and Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz to lead...
by Halley Porter | Sep 8, 2022 | JUUL & E-Cigarettes, Nicole Guntner, Samuel Geisler, Vaping
PENSACOLA, Fla. — The Juul settlement announced Tuesday may be just the beginning of payouts over the company’s e-cigarettes. The company agreed to pay nearly half a billion dollars, and change its marketing techniques. A two-year bipartisan investigation...
by Halley Porter | Sep 6, 2022 | Top Cases, Baby Formula Recall, Samuel Geisler
Abbott’s lawyers at Jones Day negotiated secret settlements and used scorched earth tactics with families whose infants fell ill after consuming powdered formula. Early on a Saturday morning in 2013, Mark Bennett, a federal judge, walked into his chambers in the...
by Halley Porter | Aug 24, 2022 | Top Cases, Baby Formula Recall, Samuel Geisler
Procedures got sloppy at the facility in Sturgis, Mich. Cronobacter bacteria proliferated. And when the FDA finally acted, America found itself in a desperate scarcity. About 20% of the infant formula produced in the US comes from a plant on the edge of the city of...
by Halley Porter | Jul 15, 2022 | Top Cases, Baby Formula Recall, Samuel Geisler
An Escambia County woman is one of dozens of people who have filed lawsuits in federal court suing the largest baby formula manufacturing company in the country. Kelli Green filed a civil lawsuit Monday against Abbott Laboratories, doing business as Abbott Nutrition,...
by Halley Porter | Jul 12, 2022 | Top Cases, Baby Formula Recall, Samuel Geisler
PENSACOLA, Fla. — A Pensacola mother is suing baby formula maker Abbott for allegedly giving her daughter salmonella. Mother, Kelli Green, said the contaminated formula made her daughter sick and eventually led to her hospitalization with ear-related issues that...
