Jurors this week handed down a $40.57 million verdict against the nation’s two largest cigarette companies, after finding them responsible for a Massachusetts smoker’s fatal lung cancer.
Attorneys last week debated responsibility for the cancer that killed a Massachusetts woman who had smoked for decades, as trial opened against R.J. Reynolds. Read More
Plaintiffs, the family members of a woman who died after decades of smoking, claim R.J. Reynolds, maker of the cigarettes she favored, manufactured a dangerous and addictive product, negligently marketed those cigarettes, and worked to conceal the...
Jurors Wednesday cleared Philip Morris and a grocery store chain of responsibility for the esophageal cancer of a Massachusetts man who smoked the tobacco giant’s cigarettes for decades. Read More
R.J. Reynolds and a grocery chain prevailed last week at trial over the bladder cancer a Massachusetts man claims was caused by decades of smoking. Read More
Jurors last week issued a $20.7 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds for the mouth cancer a Massachusetts man developed after decades of smoking. Read More