Jury Rules Smoker Failed Class Action's Citizenship Requirements, Clearing Philip Morris in His Cancer Death
Sep 22, 2016
Jurors Thursday found a smoker failed state citizenship requirements for purposes of class action membership against the nation’s tobacco companies, clearing Philip Morris of liability for his lung cancer death.
Sep 20, 2016
Johnson & Johnson on Friday removed to federal court what was expected to be the third state court trial in Missouri over the alleged cancer risks of its talc powder products barely a week before the start of jury selection.
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Sep 19, 2016
Attorneys battled Thursday over responsibility for the respiratory disease that killed a Florida man who allegedly smoked up to three packs of cigarettes a day for more than 30 years, as trial opened Thursday against R.J. Reynolds.
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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.
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Smith v. R.J. Reynolds
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.
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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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...
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Tobacco Industry Deceit Caused Cigarette Seller's Cancer, Attorney Says as Trial Opens Against Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds
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.
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 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...
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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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