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Abbott’s $495m verdict sends shockwaves across the infant formula space
Abbott Laboratories was told to pay $400m in punitive and $95m in compensatory damages after a St. Louis trial jury found the infant formula manufacturer had failed to warn its formula could cause necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a potentially deadly …