Florida Non-Engle Tobacco Trial Yields $225K Verdict Against Philip Morris
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.
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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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.
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Dec 5, 2018
Financier Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday settled a nearly decade-long state court defamation suit against him, moments before jury selection in a trial expected to include testimony from multiple women who contend he sexually abused them when they wer...
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Epstein v. Rothstein, et al.
Dec 4, 2018
Eight years after Jeffrey Epstein first filed a fraud suit against Bradley Edwards and others, a claim Epstein later dropped, Edwards' malicious prosecution claim will go to trial.
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
Update: Fort Lauderdale, FL—Jurors Friday afternoon found Daher-Socata and Socata North America were not at fault for the 2014 plane crash that injured a Georgia physician and her husband, the plane's pilot.
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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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