Posted by Meghan Gourley on Feb 16, 2017 3:23:04 PM
Editor's Note: This article has been updated to reflect the punitive damage award imposed against the defendants.
St. Petersburg, FL—Jurors awarded $5.8 million in damages to the family of a 2-pack-a-day smoker who died of lung cancer, after concluding the nation's largest tobacco companies concealed the dangers of the cigarettes they found led to her death. Brown v. Philip Morris, et al., 15-002451-CI.
Topics: Products Liability, tobacco, Florida, Brown v. Philip Morris USA
Posted by Meghan Gourley on Feb 6, 2017 12:44:23 PM
St. Petersburg, FL—Trial began this week against the country's two largest cigarettes manufacturers over their role in the cancer death of a Florida woman who smoked more than 2 packs of cigarettes a day throughout much of her life, despite losing her father to smoking-related lung cancer. Brown v. Philip Morris, et al., 15-002451-CI.
Posted by Meghan Gourley on Nov 21, 2016 6:08:07 PM
Fort Lauderdale, FL—Jurors Friday awarded $650,000 in punitive damages on top of a nearly $5.5 million compensatory judgment earlier in the week to the widower of a woman with a half-century smoking habit that left her with coronary heart disease and lung cancer. Martin v. Philip Morris, et al., 2007-CV-036440.
Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Martin v. Philip Morris
Posted by Meghan Gourley on Nov 18, 2016 3:36:58 PM
West Palm Beach, FL—A Florida jury awarded more than $1 million to a woman with late-stage emphysema from a 40-year smoking habit at trial against the tobacco company accused of hiding the dangers of smoking while selling her cigarettes for decades. Ford v. R.J. Reynolds, 2016-CA-002230.
Topics: Negligence, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, ford v. r.j. reynolds
Posted by Meghan Gourley on Nov 17, 2016 1:04:07 PM
Fort Lauderdale, FL—Jurors found R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris liable in the lung cancer death of a New York native, slapping the tobacco giants with nearly $5.5 million in compensatory damages and finding punitives potentially warranted for conspiring to hide the dangers of their cigarettes for decades. Martin v. Philip Morris, et al., 2007-CV-036440.
Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Martin v. Philip Morris
