BREAKING UPDATE: $14M in Punitives Pushes Verdict for Smoker's Widow to $21M Total in Trial Against Philip Morris & RJR
May 22, 2018
Attorneys sparred Monday over what, if any, responsibility the nation’s two largest cigarette makers bore for the lung cancer death of a long-time Florida smoker, as closings wrapped before the case went to the jury.
May 22, 2018
A tobacco industry scheme to undermine medical evidence of smoking’s risks led to a Florida woman’s fatal cancer, an attorney for the woman’s family said Friday, as trial opened against R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris.
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May 18, 2018
In this tobacco litigation case, plaintiff claims defendant cigarette makers hid the dangers of their products, which caused nicotine addiction and smoking-related disease.
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May 11, 2018
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiffs claim defendants caused nicotine addiction and smoking-related disease by concealing the dangers of cigarettes.
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Theis v. R.J. Reynolds, et al.
May 7, 2018
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, plaintiffs claim defendant cigarette manufacturers concealed the dangers of their products, leading to nicotine addiction and smoking-related illness.
May 4, 2018
In this Engle progeny tobacco litigation proceeding, plaintiff, the personal representative of the estate of her husband Jay Morse claims defendants fraudulently concealed the dangers of smoking and furthered her husband's addiction to cigarettes...
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Apr 20, 2018
Jurors Thursday linked R.J. Reynolds cigarettes to a Florida smoker’s lung disease, but they placed the majority of blame on the smoker, and their $375,000 verdict was a fraction of what she sought against the tobacco giant.
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Apr 12, 2018
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, plaintiff claims defendants caused nicotine addiction and smoking-related illness through their concealment of smoking's risks.
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RJR to Blame for Smoker's Nearly Half-Century Cigarette Addiction, COPD, Atty Argues
Apr 12, 2018
A Florida woman’s nearly half-century cigarette addiction was so powerful, she was unable to quit smoking despite 15 years of progressively worsening lung disease, the woman’s attorney said as trial opened Wednesday against R.J. Reynolds.
Apr 11, 2018
Plaintiff claims defendant tobacco company hid the dangers of cigarettes, leading to addiction and smoking-related disease.
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RJR Prevails at Trial Over Florida Woman's Death, As Jury Rejects Link Between Its Cigs and Her COPD
Mar 30, 2018
R.J. Reynolds was cleared of liability Wednesday for the respiratory disease-related death of a Florida woman, who smoked for more than half a century.
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Mar 23, 2018
Jurors this week awarded $13.5 million to the family of a Florida smoker after finding R.J. Reynolds responsible for his respiratory disease-related death.
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