$3.75 Million Awarded Over Diaper Detergent

A West German chemical company has agreed to pay $3.75 million to a woman who claimed her leukemia was caused by a detergent used to launder her diapers 23 years ago in now-defunct Booth Memorial Hospital, where she was born.

Fawna Wright, 23, of Mound City, Ill., reached the settlement with BASF Wyandotte Corp. on Monday. Her lawyers contended chemicals in Loxene may have harmed thousands of infants before the detergent was pulled from the market in the 1960s.