Russell v. R.J. Reynolds
Jan 10, 2019
In this tobacco trial, Marine Robert McCain was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1992 after smoking cigarettes for decades. While this cancer was treated, he eventually developed fatal chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. His family sues R.J. Reyno...
Dec 27, 2018
Ten years ago, the first Engle progeny tobacco trial opened. Over the next decade, Engle progeny cases, among thousands of lawsuits spun from a decertified class action against the nation's tobacco companies, have featured the best lawyers in the ...
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Dec 18, 2018
Miami—Jurors awarded the family of a Florida mechanic $225,000 for the role they concluded Philip Morris played in the long-time smoker’s lung cancer death.
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Dec 18, 2018
A $750,000 verdict jurors handed down against the nation’s two largest tobacco companies for the respiratory disease a long-time smoker developed will likely take a cut after the jury apportioned the lion’s share of responsibility to the smoker he...
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Capone v. Philip Morris
Dec 7, 2018
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff claims defendant's concealment of smoking's dangers led to nicotine addiction and smoking-related illness.
Dec 7, 2018
Inherently dangerous cigarettes and tobacco industry fraud led to a Florida mechanic’s lung cancer death, an attorney for the man’s family told jurors as trial opened against Philip Morris Friday.
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Dec 5, 2018
Financier Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday settled a nearly decade-long state court defamation suit against him, moments before jury selection in a trial expected to include testimony from multiple women who contend he sexually abused them when they wer...
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Dec 4, 2018
Eight years after Jeffrey Epstein first filed a fraud suit against Bradley Edwards and others, a claim Epstein later dropped, Edwards' malicious prosecution claim will go to trial.
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Boulter v. R.J. Reynolds
Nov 30, 2018
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff claims defendant concealed the hazards of smoking, leading to addiction and disease.
Nov 30, 2018
Attorneys Thursday debated whether R.J. Reynolds was responsible for the death of a Florida mother of 9, as trial opened against the tobacco giant.
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Nov 30, 2018
Jurors awarded $7.25 million to a Florida man for the heart disease it found was caused by a decades-long addiction to R.J. Reynolds cigarettes.
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Nov 26, 2018
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, Martha Duignan claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes, while fueling the nicotine addiction of Douglas Duignan, ultimately leading to Douglas Duignan's smoking-related disease.
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