MA Jury Awards $40M+ at Trial Against Philip Morris & RJR Over Man's Lung Cancer Death
Mar 14, 2025
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.
Feb 5, 2025
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff seeks to recover damages for alleged smoking-related disease.
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Jan 23, 2025
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff seeks to recover damages over claims related to smoking disease.
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Nov 8, 2024
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.
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Penza v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Oct 31, 2024
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...
Sep 13, 2024
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.
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Aug 20, 2024
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff seeks to recover damages for disease allegedly caused by smoking.
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Agnitti v. Philip Morris, et al.
Mar 6, 2024
In this tobacco case, plaintiff seeks to recover for smoking-related disease.
Mar 1, 2024
In this tobacco case, plaintiff seeks to recover for alleged smoking-related disease.
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Dec 18, 2023
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.
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Dec 7, 2023
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.
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Gallagher v. R.J. Reynolds
Nov 28, 2023
In this tobacco case, plaintiff seeks to recover damages for alleged smoking-related disease.