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...
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.
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Aug 10, 2016
A state court jury heard opening statements on Tuesday in the largest accounting negligence lawsuit ever to go to trial, with attorneys for a defunct mortgage company’s bankruptcy trust accusing PricewaterhouseCoopers of performing negligent audits.
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Aug 9, 2016
The lawsuit was filed in 2013 by a trust established as part of Taylor Bean and Whitaker Mortgage Corp.'s bankruptcy plan. Before being raided by federal agents in 2009 and then declaring bankruptcy, Taylor Bean & Whitaker was one of the large...
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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.
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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Aug 4, 2016
A Florida state court jury sided with a waste disposal company on Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by a cyclist who was severely injured in a collision with a 15-ton garbage truck.
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Aug 2, 2016
Mark Avera proved the link to render Domino's Pizza liable for the actions of its franchisee pizza store, and the delivery driver involved in a catastrophic car crash. In the process, he secured a nine-figure verdict.
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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 28, 2016
The largest accounting negligence lawsuit ever to go to trial begins August 1 in Florida, where Big Four firm PricewaterhouseCoopers will defend against claims it should pay $5.5 billion for performing allegedly faulty audits.
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Jul 26, 2016
A unanimous panel of six jurors deliberated for just under two hours following a weeklong trial before rejecting plaintiff Thomas Truongs allegations against Waste Services of Florida Inc. and truck driver William Bocker. Truong's attorneys accus...
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