Iowa Family Sues Maker Of Enfamil In Federal Court: Seeks Damages, Requests Jury Trial
Daniel Korte was one of the twin boys born prematurely on April 23, 2007 at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa. Because of the pre-mature birth, Daniel remained in Mercy’s NICU unit where he was fed Enfamil Powdered Human Milk Fortifier for the first time on May 5, 2007.
This week, Patrick and Michelle L. Korte, Daniel’s parents, sued Mead Johnson Nutritionals, the spin-off of Bristol Myers Squibb Co. that makes the Enfamil Powdered Human Milk Fortifier.
The family alleges that within hours of consuming the Enfamil product, Daniel was in tachycardia and blood cultures taken revealed the presence of the Enterobacter Sakazakii bacteria.
“The E. Sakazakii bacteria that infected Daniel Korte came from the powdered human milk fortifier he received out of the Enfamil container,” says the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Iowa.
The two year old continues to suffer from severe brain and other physical damages caused by the E. Sakazakii, which the Korte family blames the manufacturing defect in the Enfamil product, which they says was produced in a defective and unreasonably dangerous condition of contamination.
Evansville, IN-based Mead Johnson just raised $724 million in its initial public offering. Symbol for its now publicly traded stock is MJN. Its IPO was priced at $24 a share.
The Korte family is represented by attorneys William R. King of the Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shors & Roberts law firm in Des Moines, and Andrew Weisbecker and Bruce Clark of Marler Clark in Seattle. In seeking damages for the Korte family, the lawyers have asked for a jury trial.
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