1:02 NEC Baby Formula Lawsuits and Verdicts
Publication Date: January 5, 2026
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Attorney Trent Miracle shares updates and insight on NEC baby formula litigation and settlements related to premature infants who were diagnosed with NEC after using certain formulas.

Video Transcript -

The neck litigations currently are ongoing, at a fairly robust case both in federal court in an MDL that’s located in the North District of Illinois, in Chicago, and also in various state courts around the country. There have been two verdicts in the NEC litigation, both in state court. There was one verdict in the city of St. Louis, last year in the amount of four ninety five million dollars, on behalf of a family of a premature child who suffered from from neck. And there was a verdict in the County of Saint Clair in Illinois in the amount of sixty million dollars for a for a similar type of case.