$10M Total Verdict in Wrongful Death Cancer Case Against RJR and Philip Morris
Mar 22, 2019
Jurors this week awarded $10 million to the family of a Florida smoker whose cancer death they linked to cigarettes and a tobacco industry scheme to hide their dangers.
Mar 21, 2019
Philip Morris was hit with an $800,000 punitive verdict Tuesday for its role in the cancer an alcohol abuse counselor developed after years of smoking the company’s cigarettes.
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Mar 15, 2019
In this tobacco case, plaintiff claims defendant hid the dangers of smoking, causing nicotine addiction and disease.
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Mar 15, 2019
The Georgia Court of Appeals last week ruled a $45.8 million verdict should stand in a 2017 medical malpractice trial over the catastrophic brain damage a woman suffered days after childbirth.
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Jury Awards $50K at Trial Over Smoker's Death, Pins Only 20% of Blame on Philip Morris
Mar 15, 2019
Jurors cleared Philip Morris of the bulk of responsibility for the death of a South Florida smoker, which potentially slashes the $50,000 award they handed down last week.
Mar 14, 2019
A Massachusetts nurse who died from lung cancer was the victim of dangerous cigarette design and a scheme to undermine evidence of smoking’s risks, an attorney for the nurse’s family told jurors Tuesday, as trial began against R.J. Reynolds and a ...
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Mar 14, 2019
A Hong Kong businessman who claims Las Vegas Sands Corp. owed him $347 million for helping the company gain access to Macau's lucrative gambling market reached a confidential settlement with the casino chain on Thursday.
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Mar 14, 2019
A California state court jury returned a $29.4 million verdict on Wednesday in a trial involving asbestos allegedly present in Johnson & Johnson’s cosmetic talc products.
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Richard Suen v. Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Mar 13, 2019
A long-running lawsuit filed by a Hong Kong businessman who accuses Sheldon Adelsons gaming company Las Vegas Sands of failing to sufficiently compensate him for supposed help in gaining access to Macaus lucrative gambling market is headed for t...
Mar 13, 2019
In this Engle tobacco litigation proceeding, Bernice McCall claims defendant Philip Morris concealed the dangers of cigarettes, which caused the lung cancer and death of Martin McCall.
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Mar 12, 2019
In this tobacco case, nurse Dawn O'Toole developed fatal lung cancer at 54 after smoking Lorillard cigarettes for four decades. After R.J. Reynolds bought Lorillard in 2015, O'Toole's family sued R.J. Reynolds, claiming Lorillard's Newport cigaret...
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Mar 8, 2019
A California state court jury heard opening statements Thursday in a lawsuit accusing the City of Long Beach of placing large boulders on the median of an on-ramp that supposedly caused a single-vehicle rollover accident.
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