Russell v. R.J. Reynolds
Jan 10, 2019
In this tobacco trial, Marine Robert McCain was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1992 after smoking cigarettes for decades. While this cancer was treated, he eventually developed fatal chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. His family sues R.J. Reyno...
Dec 18, 2018
Miami—Jurors awarded the family of a Florida mechanic $225,000 for the role they concluded Philip Morris played in the long-time smoker’s lung cancer death.
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Dec 18, 2018
A $750,000 verdict jurors handed down against the nation’s two largest tobacco companies for the respiratory disease a long-time smoker developed will likely take a cut after the jury apportioned the lion’s share of responsibility to the smoker he...
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Dec 7, 2018
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff claims defendant's concealment of smoking's dangers led to nicotine addiction and smoking-related illness.
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Motley Rice, Venable Attorneys Face Off as Rare Florida Non-Engle Tobacco Trial Opens Against Philip Morris
Dec 7, 2018
Inherently dangerous cigarettes and tobacco industry fraud led to a Florida mechanic’s lung cancer death, an attorney for the man’s family told jurors as trial opened against Philip Morris Friday.
Nov 30, 2018
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff claims defendant concealed the hazards of smoking, leading to addiction and disease.
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Nov 30, 2018
Attorneys Thursday debated whether R.J. Reynolds was responsible for the death of a Florida mother of 9, as trial opened against the tobacco giant.
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Nov 30, 2018
Jurors awarded $7.25 million to a Florida man for the heart disease it found was caused by a decades-long addiction to R.J. Reynolds cigarettes.
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Ellis v. R.J. Reynolds
Nov 26, 2018
In this tobacco litigation case, plaintiff claims defendant cigarette manufacturer caused nicotine addiction and disease by hiding the hazards of smoking.
Nov 26, 2018
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, Martha Duignan claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes, while fueling the nicotine addiction of Douglas Duignan, ultimately leading to Douglas Duignan's smoking-related disease.
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Nov 16, 2018
R.J. Reynolds prevailed Thursday at trial over the lung cancer death of a 49-year-old smoker, when a Florida state court jury found the smoker completely responsible for the disease.
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Nov 15, 2018
What caused the coronary heart disease that forced a Florida smoker to undergo a triple bypass at 45, and when that disease first occurred, took center stage as trial opened against R.J. Reynolds last week.
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