Massachusetts Jury Hears Openings in Wrongful Death Tobacco Trial Against RJR & Grocery Chain
Mar 14, 2019
A Massachusetts nurse who died from lung cancer was the victim of dangerous cigarette design and a scheme to undermine evidence of smoking’s risks, an attorney for the nurse’s family told jurors Tuesday, as trial began against R.J. Reynolds and a ...
Mar 12, 2019
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff seeks damages caused by smoking-related disease.
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Oct 12, 2018
A Massachusetts state court jury Friday afternoon awarded the family of a former brake worker $43.1 million after finding R.J. Reynolds liable for his lung cancer death, but jurors cleared Philip Morris and an auto parts company of responsibility....
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Sep 7, 2018
Jury trial in products liability lawsuit claiming that plaintiff Louis Summerlin developed cancer from exposure to both asbestos and tobacco products.
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Schonau-Riedweg, et al v. Rothschild Bank AG, et al.
Nov 8, 2016
A lawsuit filed by the heiress to part of the Novartis pharmaceuticals fortune went to trial Tuesday in Massachusetts state court, in a case claiming she lost $5 million after MITs former chief intellectual property official and his business part...
Oct 7, 2016
Status conference to discuss the implementation of a tentative settlement struck in August.
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Aug 27, 2016
At the urging of a Probate and Family Court judge, parties battling over the future of Sumner Redstone's $40 billion media empire took a break from a Friday pre-trial hearing and returned announcing they’d made strides toward a deal that could ult...
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Dauman v. Redstone
Jun 30, 2016
The Redstones attorneys argued in a packed-to-capacity courtroom that Judge George Phelan should dismiss the lawsuit filed by Viacom chief executive Philippe Dauman and longtime director George Abrams, who Sumner recently removed from the board o...
May 31, 2016
Bench trial in Suffolk County Superior Court's Business Litigation in a tax liability dispute stemming from the $1.2 billion sale of golf company Acushnet to Fila Korea by Fortune Brands, now operating as Beam Inc. Click here for more in-depth cov...
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Oct 19, 2015
A trial began Monday in a long-running class action filed in 1998 on behalf of nearly 200,000 Massachusetts smokers seeking up to $609 million from tobacco giant Philip Morris USA for allegedly duping them by falsely claiming that Marlboro Light b...
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Aug 19, 2014
In this pelvic mesh product liability suit, plaintiff was the recipient of defendant's Obtryx pelvic mesh device to treat stress incontinence. Plaintiff claims that the product's defective design and defendant's failure to warn plaintiff's physici...
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