Link Between Tobacco Messaging and Smoker's Heart Disease Debated, as Trial Against Philip Morris Opens
Nov 30, 2017
Attorneys last week debated what role, if any, nicotine addiction and tobacco marketing played in a Florida man’s death from complications related to heart disease, as trial began against Philip Morris.
Nov 28, 2017
A New Jersey state court jury heard opening statements on Monday in the second pelvic mesh product liability lawsuit to go to trial in the state and first trial to take place in the major hub for mesh-related cases since 2013.
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Nov 27, 2017
A New Jersey state court jury has awarded $15 million in a lawsuit filed by a woman claiming Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon's pelvic mesh implants were defectively designed and caused her severe chronic pain.Click here for more in-depth ...
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Nov 22, 2017
Florida jurors awarded nearly $1.3 million to the widow of a Marine Corps veteran for the role they found R.J. Reynolds and its cigarettes played in his death.
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Quackenbush v. R.J. Reynolds
Nov 8, 2017
Attorneys Wednesday sparred over whether a Marine Corps vet was duped by tobacco marketing into a decades-long cigarette addiction that led to his lung cancer death, as trial opened against R.J. Reynolds, makers of the cigarettes the Florida man s...
Nov 8, 2017
R.J. Reynolds and a tobacco industry scheme to hook young smokers to cigarettes played a central role in the cancer death of 42-year-old Florida woman, an attorney for the womans daughter told jurors Wednesday, as trial began against the tobacco ...
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Nov 2, 2017
Hours after openings last week at trial claiming a defect in a powered cart’s design led to a teenager’s brain damage, the teen’s family agreed to a settlement with the cart’s manufacturer.
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Oct 24, 2017
Hours after openings at trial claiming a defect in a powered carts design led to a teenagers brain damage, the teens family agreed to a settlement with the carts manufacturer.
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$36M Total Verdict, Largest CVN-Covered Engle Award So Far in '17, Smacks Tobacco Cos. in Lung Cancer Trial
Oct 24, 2017
A Florida state court jury last week handed down verdicts totaling $36 million to the family of a smoker who died from lung cancer they claim was caused by a sweeping conspiracy to hide the dangers of cigarettes.
Oct 20, 2017
For the second time in two weeks, a California state court jury heard opening statements on Thursday in the nation’s first trial over claims that Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based body powders contain asbestos, following an earlier mistrial.
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Oct 19, 2017
A California state court jury handed a major win to Johnson & Johnson Thursday, determining that the company is not responsible for a womans cancer that she claims she developed from inhaling asbestos fibers in popular talc-based hygiene prod...
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Oct 19, 2017
A Florida smoker who grew up in Kentucky's tobacco country was among generations of children targeted by the tobacco industry, leading to a decades-long nicotine addiction that ended in his cancer death, an attorney for the smoker’s family said as...
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