{"id":148581,"date":"2026-04-10T13:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/10\/abbott-loses-70m-verdict-in-multi-plaintiff-formula-trial\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:46:42","slug":"abbott-loses-70m-verdict-in-multi-plaintiff-formula-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/10\/abbott-loses-70m-verdict-in-multi-plaintiff-formula-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott Loses $70M Verdict in Multi-Plaintiff Formula Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

A jury in Cook County Circuit Court hit Abbott with $17 million in punitive damages on Friday after awarding $53 million in compensatory damages on Thursday to the parents of four premature babies who developed a life-threatening gastrointestinal illness after ingesting its cow’s milk-based formula.<\/p>\n

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A jury in Cook County Circuit Court hit Abbott with $17 million in punitive damages on Friday after awarding $53 million in compensatory damages on Thursday to the parents of four premature babies who developed a life-threatening gastrointestinal illness after ingesting its cow’s milk-based formula.<\/p>\n

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A jury in Cook County Circuit Court hit Abbott with $17 million in punitive damages on Friday after awarding $53 million in compensatory damages on Thursday to the parents of four premature babies who developed a life-threatening gastrointestinal illness after ingesting its cow’s milk-based formula. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A jury in Cook County Circuit Court hit Abbott […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/legal-news-BMAWWu.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}