Openings of Oral Cancer Trial Against RJR Top the Tobacco Litigation Review for the Week of June 22
Jun 26, 2015
Trial opened this week in two South Florida tobacco suits by the widowers of smokers who developed mouth and lung cancer allegedly linked to their decades of smoking.
Jun 25, 2015
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff Paul Larkin (personal representative of the estate of Carole Larkin) claims R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co concealed the dangers of smoking cigarettes, which fueled his wife Carole Larkin's addiction to nicotine and...
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Jun 23, 2015
In this Engle progeny lawsuit, John McCoy is suing tobacco maker R.J. Reynolds, claiming its marketing claims concealed the health risks of cigarettes and fueled the nicotine addiction of Glodine McCoy, leading to her smoking-related diseases, inc...
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Jun 19, 2015
Jurors awarded Joyce Hardin less than $800,000 for the role she claimed tobacco maker R.J. Reynolds played in the COPD death of her husband, Thomas Hardin.
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Miami-based Defense Attorney Is This Week's Engle Card Feature
Jun 17, 2015
Which defense attorney on a winning streak is the face of our eighth Engle trading card this series?
Jun 9, 2015
The subject of this week's Engle trading card gained fame for an Engle progeny first, three years after appearing on our Series 1 card.
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Jun 4, 2015
Attorneys sparred over whether an over-the-road trucker was addicted to the cigarettes he smoked for 50 years, as trial began in a suit by the trucker's widow against R.J. Reynolds.
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Jun 2, 2015
This week's Engle Trading Card attorney is a solo practitioner with a .750 winning percentage in a CVN Engle career that stretches back to 2011.
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North Carolina Defense Lawyer Highlights Engle Trading Card Tuesday
May 26, 2015
Check to see which veteran defense attorney is featured on this week's Engle progeny trading card.
May 22, 2015
Jurors found Willie Gray, the deceased smoker at the heart of his widow Ethel Gray's suit against tobacco maker R.J. Reynolds, had not been addicted to Reynolds-brand cigarettes.
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May 19, 2015
Which Miami-based defense attorney with an exemplary .800 record on verdicts is highlighted on this week's Engle Trading Card Tuesday?
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Illness Cuts Plaintiff's Testimony Short in COPD Tobacco Trial | Engle Review for the Week of May 11
May 16, 2015
Health problems forced the 81-year-old widow of a long-time smoker who died after suffering from diseases allegedly linked to cigarettes to leave the witness stand Thursday, midway through cross-examination in her suit against R.J. Reynolds.
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