From left, attorneys Wes Holmes, Jose Isasi II, and Jennifer Weizenecker deliver openings at trial against R.J. Reynolds over the laryngeal cancer death of a New Mexico man. Watch the trial. 

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Springfield, MA— A Massachusetts jury last week handed down a $12 million verdict against Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds for the role they found the tobacco companies played in a long-time smoker’s cancer death. Perez-Trinidad v. R.J. Reynolds, et al., 2179-CV-00365. 

Michael Frankson delivers closing arguments at trial over the death of a Georgia man days after surgery. Jurors cleared Frankson's client, a hospitalist, in the medical malpractice case. Watch the trial.