Company: PRGO
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001585364-25-000014
Chunk: 274

Company: PERRIGO Co plc
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 274
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 on nuisance and negligence theories. The Company's motions to dismiss the action were denied. The Company will continue to vigorously defend this lawsuit.Some of the Company’s retailer customers are seeking indemnity from the Company for a portion of their defense costs and liability relating to these cases. Acetaminophen In October 2022, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated a number of pending actions filed in various federal courts alleging that prenatal exposure to acetaminophen is purportedly associated with the development of autism spectrum disorder (“ASD”) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (“ADHD”). The acetaminophen MDL is styled In re: Acetaminophen – ASD/ADHD Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 3043) and is pending before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Plaintiffs in the MDL have asserted claims against Johnson & Johnson Consumer, Inc. (“JJCI”) and various retailer chains alleging that plaintiff-mothers took acetaminophen products while pregnant and that plaintiff-children developed ASD and/or ADHD as a result of prenatal exposure to these acetaminophen products. As of February 2025, the Company has not been named as a defendant in any Complaints filed in the MDL. Certain of the Company’s customers have made requests regarding indemnity from the Company for a portion of their defense costs and potential liability. On December 18, 2023, the Court granted in full defendants' motions to exclude testimony of Plaintiffs' general causation expert witnesses, finding Plaintiffs presented no credible evidence of scientific causation between prenatal ingestion of acetaminophen and ASD or ADHD in children. Final judgment has been entered as to the majority of pending cases with an appeal to proceed in the Second Circuit. A small minority of cases were exempted from the Court’s dismissal to enable Plaintiffs to present an additional expert to be evaluated through a similar process as the larger 

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majority to determine if they can withstand scientific causation through this new expert. However, on July 10, 2024, the Court granted in full defendants' motion to exclude testimony of Plaintiffs' new general causation expert witness in this subset of carve out cases for similar reasons as the Court's December 2023 Order. Final judgment was entered against the Plaintiffs in those carve out cases, which have now been appealed to the Second Circuit. Currently, it is not possible