Florida Jury Awards $10.6M at Trial Against RJR Over Cancer Death of Woman Who Began Smoking at 31
Jul 3, 2019
A Florida state court jury smacked R.J. Reynolds this week with a $10.6 million total verdict for the role it found the company played in the lung cancer death of a Florida woman.
Jun 27, 2019
Attorneys last week squared off over what role, if any, R.J. Reynolds and tobacco industry messaging played in the lung cancer death of a Florida woman, as trial opened against the tobacco giant.
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Jun 25, 2019
Jurors Monday cleared R.J. Reynolds of liability for the death of a long-time Florida smoker, in the retrial of a case that resulted in a $23.6 billion verdict five years ago.
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Jun 21, 2019
A vivid analogy can be a powerful way for a jury to connect with an argument. In the punitive phase of a 2019 trial against the nation’s two biggest tobacco companies for the death of a Florida smoker, Jonathan Gdanski outlines a hypothetical teac...
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Hamilton v. R.J. Reynolds
Jun 19, 2019
In this tobacco case, plaintiff claims defendant concealed the dangers of cigarettes, leading to addiction and smoking-related disease.
|BREAKING| $8.97M Verdict Against Domino's Pizza Over Crash That Ultimately Killed Former Fire Chief
Jun 14, 2019
Domino’s Pizza was hit with an $8.97 million verdict Friday at trial over a 2011 crash that ultimately killed a former Florida fire chief.
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Jun 13, 2019
Five years after being hit with a $23.6 billion verdict that made headlines across the country, and two years after an appellate court threw out that decision, R.J. Reynolds opened retrial Wednesday over its alleged role in the 1996 cancer death o...
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Jun 13, 2019
Attorneys debated whether Domino’s Pizza is responsible for the actions of a franchisee’s delivery driver accused of causing a 2011 crash that ultimately killed a former Central Florida fire chief, as retrial in the case opened Wednesday.
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Cynthia Robinson v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al.
Jun 12, 2019
This is a tobacco trial that was originally part of the Florida Engle class action litigation that was decertified in 2006. Michael Johnson died from lung cancer in 1996 at 36 years old. He began smoking at the age of 13, and smoked Kool Menthol c...
Jun 12, 2019
In this auto negligence case, plaintiffs claim a driver for Domino's Pizza caused a collision that left another driver a quadriplegic, who ultimately died one year later from a pulmonary embolism. From CVN News:Jurors handed down a $10.1 million ...
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Jun 7, 2019
In this tobacco case, plaintiff claims defendant's concealment of smoking's risks led to addiction and disease.
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Jun 5, 2019
CVN’s Feature Trial of the Month — available on demand for our FREE CVN accounts — turns the spotlight on a wrongful death crash case that featured a slate of Florida’s most prominent attorneys.
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