Ex-Insurance Exec Who Suffered Heart Disease Says Cigarettes Controlled His Life, as Trial Begins Against RJR
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...
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 9, 2016
The daughter of a decades-long smoker said her father experienced lung cancer symptoms more than a year before he was diagnosed with the disease in 1997, a key issue as trial continued this week against the country's second-largest tobacco company.
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Aug 6, 2016
A state court jury sided with the University of Washington and one of its physicians on Friday in the first case to go to trial over the use in spine surgery of bone cement manufactured by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary.
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Mistrial, as Jurors Deliberate Smoker's Claim RJR Caused Cancer That Took Her Larynx
Aug 5, 2016
After an emergency rendered a juror unable to continue deliberations, a Florida 11th Circuit Court judge declared a mistrial Friday in the case of a smoker suing the nation's second-largest tobacco company over the cancer that took her larynx.
Aug 1, 2016
A Florida man who smoked 2 to 3 packs a day for nearly 50 years and died of lung cancer in 1997 developed the disease after the bar date, making his widow ineligible to recover under a Florida class action claim, an attorney defending the tobacco ...
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Jul 29, 2016
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, Hazel Mathis claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of smoking, leading to addiction and smoking-related disease.
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Jul 25, 2016
In this tobacco litigation case, Barbara Morales claims defendant tobacco companies hid the dangers of cigarettes, which caused addiction and smoking-related disease.
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Split Decision: Philip Morris Hit for $1.5M, but RJR Cleared in Trial Over Fatal Cancer
Jul 21, 2016
A Florida jury Tuesday found nicotine addiction and Philip Morris cigarettes caused a 40-year smoker's fatal cancer and awarded her widower $1.5 million in compensatory damages. But, it rejected any punitive payout and cleared R.J. Reynolds of lia...
Jul 14, 2016
A pulmonologist who treated a woman who smoked up to two packs of cigarettes a day for 40 years testified he would consider such a smoker, “by definition,” addicted to nicotine, as trial over the woman's fatal cancer continued against the nation’s...
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Jul 7, 2016
Attorneys battled over whether tobacco industry deception or a smoker’s own decisions caused her fatal lung cancer, as trial over the woman's death opened against R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris Tuesday.
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Jul 5, 2016
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, Joseph Varner claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes, leading to a smoker's nicotine addiction and smoking-related disease.
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