Trial Begins Over Lung Cancer Death of Chain Smoking Health Dept. Worker
Aug 19, 2016
Trial opened Thursday against the nation's second-largest tobacco company over the death of a Florida health department worker who chain smoked for years.
Aug 18, 2016
In this tobacco litigation case, plaintiff claims defendant tobacco companies caused a smoker's nicotine addiction and smoking-related disease by hiding the dangers of cigarettes.
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Aug 16, 2016
Jurors sided with the widow of a longtime Florida smoker who died of lung cancer, awarding her $5 million in compensatory damages and rejecting claims by the tobacco company that the lawsuit was time-barred.
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Aug 12, 2016
A former insurance executive who underwent open-heart surgery after smoking for 30 years told jurors cigarettes controlled his life so completely it was all he thought about by the time he finally quit, as trial against cigarette-maker R.J. Reynol...
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Wilkins v. R.J. Reynolds, et al.
Aug 10, 2016
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, William Wilkins claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes leading to nicotine addiction and smoking-related disease.
Aug 9, 2016
The daughter of a decades-long smoker said her father experienced lung cancer symptoms more than a year before he was diagnosed with the disease in 1997, a key issue as trial continued this week against the country's second-largest tobacco company.
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Aug 6, 2016
A state court jury sided with the University of Washington and one of its physicians on Friday in the first case to go to trial over the use in spine surgery of bone cement manufactured by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary.
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Aug 5, 2016
After an emergency rendered a juror unable to continue deliberations, a Florida 11th Circuit Court judge declared a mistrial Friday in the case of a smoker suing the nation's second-largest tobacco company over the cancer that took her larynx.
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Lung Cancer Suit Time Barred, Defense Argues as Trial Against R.J. Reynolds Opens
Aug 1, 2016
A Florida man who smoked 2 to 3 packs a day for nearly 50 years and died of lung cancer in 1997 developed the disease after the bar date, making his widow ineligible to recover under a Florida class action claim, an attorney defending the tobacco ...
Jul 29, 2016
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, Hazel Mathis claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of smoking, leading to addiction and smoking-related disease.
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Jul 25, 2016
In this tobacco litigation case, Barbara Morales claims defendant tobacco companies hid the dangers of cigarettes, which caused addiction and smoking-related disease.
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Jul 21, 2016
A Florida jury Tuesday found nicotine addiction and Philip Morris cigarettes caused a 40-year smoker's fatal cancer and awarded her widower $1.5 million in compensatory damages. But, it rejected any punitive payout and cleared R.J. Reynolds of lia...
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