|VIDEO| How Mark Avera's Closing Set Up a $30.8M Verdict in TBI Trial
Apr 2, 2020
Even when injuries are catastrophic, jurors can be reluctant to hand down a large award for pain and suffering. But at trial against two Florida bars over the devastating brain damage a teenager suffered in a late-night crash, Mark Avera’s vivid c...
Apr 1, 2020
Before unprecedented court closures halted the docket of Florida’s Engle progeny tobacco cases, the first three months of 2020 saw several high-profile verdicts that have added to the decade-plus history of the litigation. CVN looks at the t...
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Apr 1, 2020
Court closures have paused Florida’s decade-plus-long, Engle-progeny tobacco litigation. However, before courts shut down, the first three months of 2020 had already produced a slate of headline-grabbing verdicts in the cases, spun from a massive ...
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Mar 6, 2020
In this tobacco proceeding, plaintiff claims defendant tobacco companies hid the dangers of smoking, leading to addiction and disease.
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Lawyers Argue Over Cause of Smoker's Fatal Cancer, as Trial Starts Against Philip Morris
Mar 6, 2020
Attorneys Friday argued over who bore fault for the lung cancer that killed a 55-year-old Florida smoker, as trial opened against Philip Morris.
Feb 28, 2020
Jurors awarded a Florida woman $160,000 Wednesday at a damages trial over the two-car crash she says left her with a traumatic brain injury.
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Feb 20, 2020
A two-car crash left a Florida dance instructor with brain damage that has hamstrung her life, an attorney for the woman told jurors as a trial over her damages opened Tuesday.
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Feb 19, 2020
R.J. Reynolds was hit with a $12.5 million verdict Wednesday for the role Florida state court jurors found the company played in the death of a former police officer who smoked for decades
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Griffis, et al. v. Green, et al.
Feb 18, 2020
In this automotive negligence action, plaintiff seeks damages for injuries she says she suffered in a vehicular collision.
Feb 18, 2020
A Florida state court jury awarded $26.75 million to the family of a Florida smoker after finding the nation’s two largest tobacco companies responsible for his cancer death.
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Feb 14, 2020
Trial is set to begin next week over a 2010 car crash that a Florida woman says left her with a traumatic brain injury.
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Feb 14, 2020
R.J. Reynolds was cleared of fault Wednesday for the cancer that killed a Florida man who had smoked for more than 40 years.
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