Jurors Award $240K, Find Smoker 98% Responsible for COPD in Trial Against Tobacco Giants
Jan 30, 2016
A jury Thursday largely cleared the nation’s two largest cigarette manufacturers of responsibility for the respiratory disease and death of a decades-long smoker, awarding $240,000 in unreduced damages but finding the smoker 98% at fault.
Jan 28, 2016
Jurors Tuesday found tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds not liable for the fatal lung cancer that killed a Florida man who smoked for more than 40 years.
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Jan 25, 2016
In this tobacco litigation trial, Ina Ahrens claims Philip Morris concealed the dangers of cigarettes, leading to the smoking-related disease of Karl Ahrens.
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Jan 21, 2016
Attorneys drew battle lines over the reasons behind a long-time smoker’s respiratory disease as trial opened last week in a suit by his widow against the makers of the cigarettes her husband smoked.
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Jenny Hyoung v. Kyoung Yoo MD
Jan 20, 2016
A California state court jury rejected a womans medical malpractice lawsuit claiming her physician was negligent for treating her acne with a powerful antibiotic that caused a severe allergic reaction which left her with scarring on over 30 perce...
Jan 15, 2016
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, Doris Ewing claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes, leading to the smoking-related illness of James Ewing.
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Jan 14, 2016
In this tobacco litigation trial, Janice Rounds claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes, which caused a smoking-related disease in Terrance Rounds.
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Jan 13, 2016
Attorneys debated what drove a Florida nurse to smoke up to three packs of cigarettes a day for more than 30 years, before she developed lung cancer and respiratory disease, as trial opened this week in her suit against the nation’s two largest to...
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Howles v. Philip Morris
Jan 11, 2016
In this tobacco litigation trial, Mary Howles is suing defendant tobacco companies, claiming they concealed the dangers of cigarettes, which caused a smoking-related disease.
Dec 23, 2015
Jurors awarded $35 million to the widower of an airline worker after finding the nation’s two largest cigarette manufacturers responsible for her fatal lung cancer.
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Dec 17, 2015
Jurors last night cleared a door company of liability for the brain damage a former UCLA staff member claims she suffered when a rolling fire door struck her head.
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Dec 10, 2015
As critical as a well-prepared closing is, sometimes the moments with the biggest impact are delivered as a counterpunch to a remark by opposing counsel.
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