BREAKING: Cigarette Makers Hit for $9M, Plus Punitives TBD, in Widow's Suit Over Ex-Smoker's Deadly Cancer
Feb 11, 2016
Attorneys Wednesday debated what drove a Florida man to smoke for more than 30 years, as jurors prepare to decide whether the nation’s two largest tobacco companies are responsible for his cancer death.
Feb 10, 2016
In this Engle tobacco litigation proceeding, Bernice McCall claims defendant Philip Morris concealed the dangers of cigarettes, which caused the lung cancer and death of Martin McCall.
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Feb 3, 2016
In this tobacco litigation trial, plaintiffs claim defendant R.J. Reynolds concealed the hazards of cigarettes, leading to a smoking-related disease.
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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.
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R.J. Reynolds Cleared in $14M Trial Over Hospital Worker's Fatal Cancer
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.
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 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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CVN Florida Honors Its Defense Attorney of 2015
Jan 14, 2016
Many of the nation's premier defense attorneys won critical cases in Florida while CVN cameras recorded the action in 2015. But the year's winner earned the honor as CVN Florida's Defense Attorney of the Year with a hard-fought win in a million-do...
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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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.
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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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