Trial Begins Over Lung Cancer Death of Chain Smoking Health Dept. Worker
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.
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.
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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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Ex-Insurance Exec Who Suffered Heart Disease Says Cigarettes Controlled His Life, as Trial Begins Against RJR
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...
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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Aug 10, 2016
A state court jury heard opening statements on Tuesday in the largest accounting negligence lawsuit ever to go to trial, with attorneys for a defunct mortgage company’s bankruptcy trust accusing PricewaterhouseCoopers of performing negligent audits.
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Aug 9, 2016
The lawsuit was filed in 2013 by a trust established as part of Taylor Bean and Whitaker Mortgage Corp.'s bankruptcy plan. Before being raided by federal agents in 2009 and then declaring bankruptcy, Taylor Bean & Whitaker was one of the large...
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Smoker Showed Cancer Signs Long Before Lawsuit Cutoff Date, Daughter Says in Tobacco Trial
Aug 9, 2016
The daughter of a decades-long smoker said her father experienced lung cancer symptoms more than a year before he was diagnosed with the disease in 1997, a key issue as trial continued this week against the country's second-largest tobacco company.
Aug 5, 2016
After an emergency rendered a juror unable to continue deliberations, a Florida 11th Circuit Court judge declared a mistrial Friday in the case of a smoker suing the nation's second-largest tobacco company over the cancer that took her larynx.
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Aug 4, 2016
A Florida state court jury sided with a waste disposal company on Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by a cyclist who was severely injured in a collision with a 15-ton garbage truck.
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Aug 2, 2016
Mark Avera proved the link to render Domino's Pizza liable for the actions of its franchisee pizza store, and the delivery driver involved in a catastrophic car crash. In the process, he secured a nine-figure verdict.
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