Settlement Reached on 2nd Day of Testimony in Mass. DES Case

BOSTON — A settlement has been reached in a Massachusetts case against Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE: LLY) in which four sisters alleged their mother’s ingestion of diethylstilbestrol in the 1950s caused them to develop breast cancer 40 years later.

According to the Associated Press, the settlement was announced on the second day of testimony in the trial overseen by Judge Marianne B. Bowler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The judge canceled the trial on Jan. 9.

Andrea Andrews, Michele Fecho, Donna McNeely and Francine Melnick, sisters who were all born in the 1950s, sued …