Infant Formula Lawsuit Links Similac and Similac Special Care to Newborn’s NEC Injuries
Premature infant faces permanent, life-long bowel problems after being fed Similac Special Care, lawsuit claims.
Premature infant faces permanent, life-long bowel problems after being fed Similac Special Care, lawsuit claims.
Studies have shown that side effects of Similac and Enfamil formula substantially increase the risk of NEC for premature newborns, lawsuit notes.
Michigan mother claims that Abbott Laboratories has known for years about the risk that cow's milk-based Similac formula may cause NEC in premature infants.
Abbott Laboratories allegedly induced parents to purchase Similac toddler drinks by making misleading claims about health benefits for young children.
After she was fed Similac formula as an infant, a now adult woman indicates that she developed permanent and disabling NEC injuries, which continue to cause medical and financial challenges.
North Carolina mother indicates the cow's milk-based Similac infant formula caused a fatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) infection, which took her child’s life at just three weeks old.
Lawsuit alleges mother says she would have never allowed hospital staff to feed her child cow's milk-based formula had she been told the risks of Similac NEC side effects.
Abbott was ordered to pay $95 million in compensatory damages to an Illinois mother for failing to warn about the risk of NEC from Similac, with another $400 million assessed to punish the manufacturer for it's conduct
Nearly 20 years after being fed Enfamil formula in the hospital, plaintiff's daughter continues to suffer from injuries caused by NEC, highlighting how earlier warnings could have prevented long-term harm.
Parents say their prematurely born infant son died of NEC at just a month old, after being fed cow's milk-based Similac infant formula while still in the NICU.