Suit Over Chain-Smoking Corrections Officer's COPD Time Barred, R.J. Reynolds Argues
Sep 16, 2016
A widow's suit over the respiratory disease and death of her husband, a 2-pack-a-day smoker for nearly half a century, is time barred, lawyers for R.J. Reynolds claimed Thursday as trial opened against the tobacco giant.
Sep 15, 2016
In this tobacco litigation case, plaintiff claims defendant concealed the dangers of cigarettes, leading to nicotine addiction and, ultimately, smoking-related disease.
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Sep 15, 2016
In this tobacco litigation case, plaintiff claims defendant tobacco company concealed the dangers of cigarettes, causing nicotine addiction and smoking-related disease.
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Sep 13, 2016
Attorneys Monday battled over whether choice or addiction drove a Cuban immigrant to smoke as many as 4 packs of cigarettes a day for 45 years, as trial over his lung cancer opened against the country's biggest cigarette maker.
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Chacon v. Philip Morris
Sep 12, 2016
In this Engle progeny tobacco suit, decedent Robiel Chacon suffered lung cancer after smoking Philip Morris' Marlboro cigarettes for years. Chacon's family claims that this cancer was caused by Philip Morris conspiring to hide the dangers of cigar...
Sep 9, 2016
Attorneys debated what drove a Florida merchant who spent much of his career selling cigarettes to smoke himself, as trial over his lung cancer opened this week against the nation’s two largest tobacco companies.
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Sep 8, 2016
R.J. Reynolds prevailed Tuesday against a $15 million suit by a former train engineer after jurors found his claim untimely.
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Sep 6, 2016
In this tobacco litigation suit, Marilyn Oshinsky claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers and addictiveness of cigarettes, leading to Dennis Oshinsky's smoking-related disease.
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"No Doubt:" In Trial Against RJR, Dr. Says Train Engineer's Smoking, Not Job, Caused COPD
Sep 2, 2016
A Harvard pulmonologist testified this week he has "no doubt in his mind" that a former railroad worker who was a 3-pack-a-day smoker now suffers from emphysema because of his 30-year smoking history, rather than exposure to locomotive fumes, as t...
Aug 26, 2016
Attorneys battled Wednesday over whether the statute of limitations bars a former smoker's suit against R.J. Reynolds for the respiratory disease that renders renders him dependent on an oxygen tank, as trial opened in the case.
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Aug 26, 2016
Jurors Thursday needed less than an hour to reject the claims of Florida siblings who sought up to $8 million in compensatory damages plus untold punitives from R.J. Reynolds for the lung cancer death of their mother, a former Florida health depar...
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Aug 25, 2016
A Florida health department employee smoked throughout each day for decade. But she successfully quit smoking in her first serious attempt, according to testimony at trial against R.J. Reynolds, accused of addicting her to the cigarettes that caus...
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