Infant-formula damages verdict against Mead Johnson overturned
Key takeaways
- Clair County made the award to Jasmine Watson, the parent of Chance Dean, who passed away after being fed the company’s brand of milk for premature babies, Enfamil Premature 24.
- No date was specified for the new trial.
- Mead Johnson appealed, arguing the “damages award was excessive and that the admission of extensive financial information deprived it of a fair trial”.
Infant-formula damages verdict against Mead Johnson overturned https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/milk-powder-baby-measuring-spoon-on-580979455?tracking Id=4cee15ae-f6d6-4eb7-a7a6-35338fab7914&list Id=search Results · Just Food · Teerasak Ladnongkhun/Shutterstock.com Simon Harvey Tue, June 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM GMT+7 3 min read RKT.L A US court has reversed a decision against infant-formula maker Mead Johnson awarding $60m in damages to a mother of a baby who died from NEC.
In 2024, the Illinois state court in St. Clair County made the award to Jasmine Watson, the parent of Chance Dean, who passed away after being fed the company’s brand of milk for premature babies, Enfamil Premature 24.
The court had ruled that US-based Mead Johnson, owned by UK-headquartered CPG group Reckitt Benckiser, was “negligent” because it failed to warn mothers of the risks from the life-threatening necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) disease as a result of consuming that type of formula.