Aspinall v. Philip Morris
Oct 19, 2015
A trial began Monday in a long-running class action filed in 1998 on behalf of nearly 200,000 Massachusetts smokers seeking up to $609 million from tobacco giant Philip Morris USA for allegedly duping them by falsely claiming that Marlboro Light b...
Oct 19, 2015
A trial began Monday in a false advertising class action seeking up to $609 million from Philip Morris for claiming that Marlboro Lights contain lower tar and nicotine levels than Marlboro Reds.
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Oct 16, 2015
As trial opened this week in the death of a Florida plasterer who smoked for more than 50 years, opposing sides sparred over the cause of the cancer that killed David Robertson and whether it was linked to R.J. Reynolds cigarettes.
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Oct 16, 2015
A New Jersey state court jury cleared Johnson & Johnson subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare of all liability on Friday in the first of hundreds of lawsuits to go to trial.
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Robertson v. R.J. Reynolds
Oct 12, 2015
In this tobacco liability case, Irene Robertson is suing defendant tobacco manufacturers for concealing the dangers of cigarettes, which she claims led to the nicotine addiction and smoking-related disease of David Robertson.
Oct 9, 2015
Jurors delivered a verdict for R.J. Reynolds in everything but name Monday, as they awarded $5,000 to the widower of a Polish immigrant who smoked for more than 40 years, and they found Reynolds only 2% responsible for the cancer that caused her d...
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Oct 9, 2015
A South Carolina state court jury slammed Texas-based materials company Celanese Corp. with a $14 million verdict on Thursday in a lawsuit brought by the family of a maintenance worker who died of cancer after being exposed to asbestos.
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Oct 8, 2015
The nation’s two largest tobacco companies were each hit Tuesday with $250,000 punitive awards for their role in the death of a Florida man who smoked for more than 50 years.
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Takeda Strikes Tentative Deal To End $2 Billion Actos Trial
Oct 7, 2015
A state court judge overseeing a potentially $2 billion trial over the alleged bladder cancer risks of Takeda's blockbuster diabetes drug Actos announced a tentative resolution of the case on Wednesday.
Oct 5, 2015
Johnson & Johnson scored a major win Monday in a $9.5 million products liability suit over its Prosima pelvic mesh system, when a state court jury rejected a woman’s claim that the device was defectively designed.
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Oct 3, 2015
Jurors Friday awarded $1 million, plus potential punitives, to a Florida widow who claimed two of the nation’s leading tobacco companies were responsible for her husband’s death following a half-century of smoking.
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Sep 29, 2015
A South Carolina state court jury slammed Texas-based materials company Celanese Corp. with a $14 million verdict on Thursday in a lawsuit brought by the family of a machinist who died of cancer after being exposed to asbestos while working at a p...
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