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...
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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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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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...
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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...
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.
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Aug 19, 2016
Trial opened Thursday against the nation's second-largest tobacco company over the death of a Florida health department worker who chain smoked for years.
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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 18, 2016
In this tobacco litigation case, plaintiff claims defendant tobacco companies caused a smoker's nicotine addiction and smoking-related disease by hiding the dangers of cigarettes.
Aug 16, 2016
Jurors sided with the widow of a longtime Florida smoker who died of lung cancer, awarding her $5 million in compensatory damages and rejecting claims by the tobacco company that the lawsuit was time-barred.
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Aug 12, 2016
A former insurance executive who underwent open-heart surgery after smoking for 30 years told jurors cigarettes controlled his life so completely it was all he thought about by the time he finally quit, as trial against cigarette-maker R.J. Reynol...
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Aug 10, 2016
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, William Wilkins claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes leading to nicotine addiction and smoking-related disease.
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