by Halley Porter | Feb 21, 2023 | Top Cases, Baby Formula Recall, Samuel Geisler
Company Announcement Product tested and confirmed negative for contaminants. No reported adverse consumer reactions to date. Reckitt, a producer of nutrition products, announced today that, out of an abundance of caution, it has chosen to voluntarily recall two (2)...
by Halley Porter | Feb 20, 2023 | Top Cases, Baby Formula Recall, Samuel Geisler
Abbott is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as the Federal Trade Commission, in relation to their infant formula business, the company disclosed in a new SEC filing. Abbott said in a filing Friday that they received a subpoena from...
by Halley Porter | Jan 23, 2023 | Top Cases, Baby Formula Recall, Samuel Geisler
Michigan plant at center of probe was temporarily closed by the company last year after potentially deadly bacteria was found U.S. lawmakers have accused Abbott of engaging in a coverup following a contamination and recall at a key formula plant in Sturgis, Mich. The...
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 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 | 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,...