Jurors Award $240K, Find Smoker 98% Responsible for COPD in Trial Against Tobacco Giants
Jan 30, 2016
A jury Thursday largely cleared the nation’s two largest cigarette manufacturers of responsibility for the respiratory disease and death of a decades-long smoker, awarding $240,000 in unreduced damages but finding the smoker 98% at fault.
Jan 28, 2016
Jurors Tuesday found tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds not liable for the fatal lung cancer that killed a Florida man who smoked for more than 40 years.
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Jan 25, 2016
In this tobacco litigation trial, Ina Ahrens claims Philip Morris concealed the dangers of cigarettes, leading to the smoking-related disease of Karl Ahrens.
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Jan 21, 2016
Attorneys drew battle lines over the reasons behind a long-time smoker’s respiratory disease as trial opened last week in a suit by his widow against the makers of the cigarettes her husband smoked.
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Ewing v. R.J. Reynolds
Jan 15, 2016
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, Doris Ewing claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes, leading to the smoking-related illness of James Ewing.
Jan 14, 2016
In this tobacco litigation trial, Janice Rounds claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes, which caused a smoking-related disease in Terrance Rounds.
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Jan 13, 2016
Attorneys debated what drove a Florida nurse to smoke up to three packs of cigarettes a day for more than 30 years, before she developed lung cancer and respiratory disease, as trial opened this week in her suit against the nation’s two largest to...
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Jan 11, 2016
In this tobacco litigation trial, Mary Howles is suing defendant tobacco companies, claiming they concealed the dangers of cigarettes, which caused a smoking-related disease.
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$35M Award Hammers Tobacco Giants in Trial over Airline Worker’s Fatal Cancer
Dec 23, 2015
Jurors awarded $35 million to the widower of an airline worker after finding the nation’s two largest cigarette manufacturers responsible for her fatal lung cancer.
Dec 10, 2015
Jurors Wednesday awarded $11 million to a former smoker for the role they found R.J. Reynolds played in causing the throat cancer that took her voice box.
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Dec 7, 2015
In this tobacco litigation, Roland Ledoux claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of smoking, while fueling the nicotine addiction of Patricia Ledoux, which led to her smoking-related illness.
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Dec 2, 2015
A trial has concluded in a class action brought on behalf of Massachusetts smokers who claim they were duped into buying Marlboro Lights by Philip Morris USA’s advertisements that they contained less nicotine than normal cigarettes.
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