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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|BREAKING NEWS| PricewaterhouseCoopers Settles $5.5B Accounting Negligence Suit by Taylor Bean Trust
Aug 26, 2016
PricewaterhouseCoopers settled a $5.5 billion accounting negligence case against it, midway through a Florida state court trial over the accounting giant’s alleged responsibility for failing to detect widespread fraud that led to the collapse of o...
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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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Jones v. R.J. Reynolds
Aug 25, 2016
A Florida jury concluded that R.J. Reynolds was not responsible for the lung cancer death of a former golf pro who smoked the companys cigarettes for decades. Jones, who worked in the banking industry before eventually becoming a golf professiona...
Aug 25, 2016
As the $5.5 billion accounting negligence trial against PricewaterhouseCoopers entered its third week Monday, the former general counsel of failed mortgage giant Taylor, Bean & Whitaker closed two days of testimony over agreements that led to ...
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Aug 25, 2016
Watch Cale Conley open trial en route to a seven-figure verdict against Gerdau Ameristeel for its role in the death of an electrician working on the site.
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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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Hackimer v. R.J. Reynolds, et al.
Aug 24, 2016
In this tobacco litigation case, plaintiffs claims defendants hid the dangers and addictiveness of cigarettes, which caused addiction and smoking-related disease.
Aug 23, 2016
Watch casino mogul Sheldon Adelson in key pre-trial testimony of a wrongful termination suit against Adelson's Las Vegas Sands Corp.
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Aug 19, 2016
Jurors Thursday found a retired insurance executive not addicted to nicotine and cleared cigarette-maker R.J. Reynolds from responsibility for the heart disease he suffered after years of smoking, but not before the panel signaled its struggle to ...
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Aug 19, 2016
Watch a key piece of the closing argument that set the stage for a $55 million verdict in the second state court case to go to trial claiming Johnson & Johnson talcum powder caused a woman's ovarian cancer.
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