|BREAKING NEWS| PricewaterhouseCoopers Settles $5.5B Accounting Negligence Suit by Taylor Bean Trust
Aug 26, 2016
PricewaterhouseCoopers settled a $5.5 billion accounting negligence case against it, midway through a Florida state court trial over the accounting giant’s alleged responsibility for failing to detect widespread fraud that led to the collapse of o...
Aug 25, 2016
A Florida jury concluded that R.J. Reynolds was not responsible for the lung cancer death of a former golf pro who smoked the companys cigarettes for decades. Jones, who worked in the banking industry before eventually becoming a golf professiona...
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Aug 25, 2016
As the $5.5 billion accounting negligence trial against PricewaterhouseCoopers entered its third week Monday, the former general counsel of failed mortgage giant Taylor, Bean & Whitaker closed two days of testimony over agreements that led to ...
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Aug 25, 2016
A Florida health department employee smoked throughout each day for decade. But she successfully quit smoking in her first serious attempt, according to testimony at trial against R.J. Reynolds, accused of addicting her to the cigarettes that caus...
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Hackimer v. R.J. Reynolds, et al.
Aug 24, 2016
In this tobacco litigation case, plaintiffs claims defendants hid the dangers and addictiveness of cigarettes, which caused addiction and smoking-related disease.
Aug 19, 2016
Trial opened Thursday against the nation's second-largest tobacco company over the death of a Florida health department worker who chain smoked for years.
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Aug 19, 2016
Jurors Thursday found a retired insurance executive not addicted to nicotine and cleared cigarette-maker R.J. Reynolds from responsibility for the heart disease he suffered after years of smoking, but not before the panel signaled its struggle to ...
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Aug 18, 2016
In this tobacco litigation case, plaintiff claims defendant tobacco companies caused a smoker's nicotine addiction and smoking-related disease by hiding the dangers of cigarettes.
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Jury Hits R.J. Reynolds for $5M in Widow's Suit over Fatal Cancer
Aug 16, 2016
Jurors sided with the widow of a longtime Florida smoker who died of lung cancer, awarding her $5 million in compensatory damages and rejecting claims by the tobacco company that the lawsuit was time-barred.
Aug 12, 2016
A former insurance executive who underwent open-heart surgery after smoking for 30 years told jurors cigarettes controlled his life so completely it was all he thought about by the time he finally quit, as trial against cigarette-maker R.J. Reynol...
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Aug 10, 2016
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, William Wilkins claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes leading to nicotine addiction and smoking-related disease.
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Aug 10, 2016
A state court jury heard opening statements on Tuesday in the largest accounting negligence lawsuit ever to go to trial, with attorneys for a defunct mortgage company’s bankruptcy trust accusing PricewaterhouseCoopers of performing negligent audits.
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