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Viera, FL—A Florida state court jury last week handed down verdicts totaling $36 million to the family of a smoker who died from lung cancer they claim was caused by a sweeping conspiracy to hide the dangers of cigarettes.Wallace v. Philip Morris, 2014-CA052862.
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Topics: Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Wallace v. Philip Morris
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Atlanta, GA—Trial is scheduled to begin this week against a powered-cart manufacturer accused of responsibility for the lifelong brain damage a Georgia teenager suffered when he was thrown from one of its vehicles during an Independence Day celebration. Gardner v. Textron Inc., 14EV001346.
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Topics: Georgia, Transportation, product liability, Gardner v. Textron Inc.
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Topics: Products Liability, Asbestos, California, Talc
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Orlando, FL—A Florida smoker who grew up in Kentucky's tobacco country was among generations of children targeted by the tobacco industry, leading to a decades-long nicotine addiction that ended in his cancer death, an attorney for the smoker’s family said as trial opened against R.J. Reynolds Monday. Hochreiter v. R. J. Reynolds, 2015CA003926.
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Topics: Products Liability, tobacco, Florida, Hochreiter v. R.J. Reynolds
