MA Jury Awards $510K for Long-Time Smoker's Fatal Lung Cancer, Finds Tobacco Cos. Liable for Conspiracy
Dec 11, 2025
A Massachusetts jury handed down a $510,000 verdict for the role it found Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds played in the lung cancer death of a long-time smoker.
Nov 4, 2025
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff seeks to recover damages for alleged smoking-related disease.
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Nov 3, 2025
Jurors last week cleared R.J. Reynolds of responsibility for the fatal throat cancer a New Mexico man suffered after smoking the company’s cigarettes for decades.
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Oct 15, 2025
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff seeks to recover damages for alleged smoking-related disease.
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Attorneys Debate Whether RJR, Philip Morris Cigarettes Are Defectively Designed, as Trial Opens Over Smoker's Cancer Death
Sep 15, 2025
Attorneys last week sparred over who was responsible for the cancer death of a Massachusetts man who had smoked for decades, as trial opened against the nation’s two largest tobacco companies and a convenience store chain that sells the companies’...
Sep 11, 2025
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff seeks to recover for disease allegedly caused by smoking.
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Sep 11, 2025
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff seeks to recover for disease allegedly caused by smoking.
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May 29, 2025
Attorneys debated responsibility for the death of a Massachusetts woman who smoked for decades, as trial opened Wednesday against Philip Morris.
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LaJeunesse v. R.J. Reynolds, et al.
May 28, 2025
This tobacco trial did not go forward. However, you may be interested in the following tobacco proceedings: Ruiz v. RJ ReynoldsDubins v. Philip Morris, et al.Patricia Greene, et al. v. Philip Morris, et al.
May 12, 2025
This tobacco trial did not go forward. However, you may be interested in the following tobacco proceedings: Russell v. R.J. Reynolds, et al.Hamilton v. R.J. ReynoldsDubins v. Philip Morris, et al.
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Apr 16, 2025
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff seeks to recover damages for alleged smoking-related disease.
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Apr 7, 2025
A Florida jury cleared R.J. Reynolds of responsibility for the alleged respiratory disease of a long-time Florida smoker, by concluding her family's claim against the tobacco giant was time-barred.
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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.