RJR Slapped With $7.5M Total Verdict at Trial Over Trucker's Fatal Lung Cancer
Aug 30, 2018
Jurors delivered a $7.5 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds this week for the part they found the tobacco company played in the cancer death of a Florida truck driver.
Aug 30, 2018
Premises liability cases involving a property's security often turn on whether the property owner could have reasonably done anything to make the premises safer. In a January 2018 trial over the shooting death of an apartment tenant, Weinberg Whee...
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Aug 23, 2018
R.J. Reynolds was cleared of responsibility Tuesday for the throat cancer a Cuban immigrant claims was caused by years of smoking the company’s cigarettes.
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Aug 22, 2018
A California state court jury heard opening statements on Monday in the sixth lawsuit to go to trial over claims that asbestos supposedly present in Johnson & Johnson’s cosmetic talc products causes mesothelioma.
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Carolyn Weirick v. Brenntag North America, et al.
Aug 20, 2018
Jury trial in lawsuit alleging that exposure to asbestos supposedly present in Johnson & Johnson's talc powder products caused plaintiff Carolyn Weirick to develop mesothelioma.
Aug 20, 2018
A state court jury determined on Friday that the Nevada Division of Forestry’s gross negligence caused a prescribed burn to rage out of control, potentially opening the state up to liability for more than $80 million in property damage caused by t...
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Aug 19, 2018
Jurors Friday evening cleared Milliken & Company of fault in the first wrongful death case to go to trial over a Georgia plane crash that killed five employees of a vascular practice.
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Aug 17, 2018
Closing arguments are expected Friday in the first wrongful death trial against Milliken & Company over a plane crash that killed five people, a day after the pilot involved in the crash wrapped testimony in the case.
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Jury Hits RJR With $2M Verdict, Plus Possible Punitives, For Smoker's Fatal Throat Cancer
Aug 17, 2018
Jurors Thursday night handed down a $2 million verdict night against R.J. Reynolds, and found punitives potentially warranted, for the part they concluded the cigarette maker played in the throat cancer-related death of a Florida smoker.
Aug 16, 2018
U-Haul International Inc. faced accusations Wednesday in an Arizona state courtroom that its decision to rent out tow dollies without brakes caused a truck pulling another vehicle to roll over on a highway, leaving a passenger permanently paralyzed.
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Aug 15, 2018
In this tobacco litigation case, Barbara Morales claims defendant tobacco companies hid the dangers of cigarettes, which caused addiction and smoking-related disease.
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Aug 15, 2018
Jury trial in products liability lawsuit alleging that a supposedly defective "tow dolly" caused an automobile crash that resulted in serious injuries.
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