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Several parents whose premature infants developed necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) after being fed cow’s milk-based formula at Pennsylvania Hospital sued the manufacturers of the formula, as well as the hospital, in Pennsylvania state court. The parents alleged that the manufacturers’ products caused NEC and that the hospital failed to warn of the risks and implement policies to protect patients. Some plaintiffs…

A West Virginia woman whose baby died from a disease allegedly caused by consuming cow's milk-based infant formula won't get the chance to revive her lawsuit against Abbott Labs, the maker of the formula, because the "alternative warning" she and her lawyers proposed wouldn't have made a difference, a federal appeals court has ruled. On July 24, the U.S. Seventh…

Faced with the prospect of a potential landmark appellate court ruling against them, the American Association of Pediatrics has moved to drop altogether their bid to use Chicago's federal courts to block Florida's state attorney general from using Florida's courts to press his claim the AAP violated a Florida state law by allegedly misleading the public about the safety of…

The estate of a Nappanee man has accused the Indiana Department of Transportation of failing to maintain a construction zone that was the site of his fatal collision last year. Missouri-based law firm Keller & Keller filed the lawsuit last week on behalf of the estate of Jerry Lamb, who died in a multi-vehicle collision on U.S. Highway 20 last…

A customer was injured at a retail pharmacy when numerous beverage bottles fell from a cooler shelf, striking him and causing him to fall. The coolers in the store were stocked by both employees and independent beverage vendors, with vendors responsible for the majority of products and annual “resets” involving shelf removal and cleaning. Employees did not oversee these resets…

The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s ruling that the city of South Bend should not be held liable for the injuries a man obtained after falling into a pothole in downtown South Bend two years ago. The Court of Appeals determined that the city failed to designate sufficient evidence to prove it was entitled to immunity under…

A federal judge won’t dismiss a complaint from the family of a woman who is now cognitively impaired after she suffered an overdose-induced cardiac arrest while in custody, injuries they blame on Chicago police officers who allegedly failed to notice one of 27 ecstasy pills lodged inside her vagina. U.S. District Judge Manish Shah issued an opinion June 15 preserving…

A state appeals panel will allow a man who was struck by a car while walking to sue New Lenox for his injuries, because the man claims police officers were essentially obligated to drive him home after allegedly picking him up for trespassing at Silver Cross Hospital, rather than leaving him in a restaurant parking lot in Orland Park, near…

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided against a Missouri man who claimed that the herbicide Roundup caused his cancer. The majority of the court backed an argument from the product’s manufacturer that the lawsuit should have been barred because the federal government does not require a cancer warning on the label. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the opinion for a 7-2…