A lawyer for a Missouri mother on Wednesday asked a jury to make Abbott and Reckitt’s Mead Johnson pay a total of more than $6 billion in the latest trial over claims that the companies’ formulas for premature babies caused a severe intestinal illness.
Litigation over the formulas has raised alarm from doctors who say it could threaten the formulas’ availability or affect medical decisions.
Abbott CEO Robert Ford has told investors that it may pull its premature infant formula from the market because of the litigation. Reckitt in July said it was “considering options”