Philip Morris must pay smoker $37M
A long-time cigarette smoker sufficiently showed reliance for the purpose of establishing a tobacco company’s liability for the fraudulent concealment of the health hazards of its products, the Florida...
View ArticleOut-of-state smoker may be member of ‘Engle’ class
A smoker who died from lung cancer in his home state of Virginia may have been a member of one of the Florida classes certified for product liability claims against the tobacco industry, the Florida...
View ArticleFla. court reinstates $2M ‘Engle’ verdict
A product liability suit concerning the death of a long-time cigarette smoker was not barred by the state’s four-year statute of limitations, the Florida Court of Appeal has ruled on rehearing. The...
View ArticleBenchmarks: Tobacco giants would admit ‘lies’ under judge’s order
A federal judge has ordered the nation’s top cigarette makers to issue public statements to correct decades of “false and misleading” claims about the dangers and addictiveness of smoking. U.S....
View ArticleBenchmarks: Fla. court slashes $16.2M from smoker award
A Florida appeals court has overturned a jury’s award of $16.2 million in punitive damages to a now-deceased cigarette smoker, concluding that Philip Morris should have been allowed to present a...
View ArticleSupreme Court lets stand $20M ‘Engle’ verdict
The U.S. Supreme Court will not review a $20 million product liability judgment against R.J. Reynolds and Liggett Group, declining the tobacco giants’ invitation to decide whether Florida’s procedures...
View ArticleBenchmarks: ‘Passion and prejudice’ negate $37M smoker award
After upholding a $37 million smoker award in June, a Florida appeals court had second thoughts, deciding Wednesday that passion and prejudice so influenced the jury that the only recourse is to grant...
View ArticleFla. high court upholds ‘Engle’ findings in smoker case
The due process rights of tobacco defendants were not violated by the application of jury findings from a landmark class action to an individual claim alleging the wrongful death of a longtime...
View ArticleN.Y. smokers can’t sue Philip Morris
Long-time smokers could not sue Philip Morris for manufacturing cigarettes that allegedly contained unnecessarily dangerous levels of carcinogens, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in...
View ArticlePunitive damages vacated in tobacco suit
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has struck down an $81 million award of punitive damages in a wrongful death case against Lorillard Tobacco Company. The verdict, which totaled $152 million,...
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