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. 

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Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect the verdict reached Friday morning. 

Jurors Friday awarded more than $3 million to the family of a woman who died days after childbirth, with a verdict that split fault between the two nurses who treated her, but cleared her doctor of negligence. Edwards v. Nicome, et al., 11A36121.

An image of the Maldonados' car after the wreck that killed Deborah and Eliezer Maldonado, Jr. The image was shown during openings at trial against Theorphilus Clark, Wayne T. Fellows Inc. and Peoplease Corp., accused of responsibility for the crash. 

Ocala, FL—Attorneys debated who caused the late night, 2012 truck crash that killed a Florida woman and her 12-year-old son, as trial opened Wednesday against the trucker and companies that hired him. Maldonado v. Wayne T. Fellows, et al., 2013CA001308.

Mark Emalfarb details emailed allegations at the heart of Dyadic International's $700-plus million legal malpractice trial against Greenberg Traurig.  

West Palm Beach, FL—The CEO of a Florida biotech company told jurors last week he felt he was made into a scapegoat during a rush to judgment that allegedly cost his company $700 million in lost business, as trial continued in the company’s malpractice suit against legal giant Greenberg Traurig.  Dyadic Inc. v. Greenberg Traurig, 2009CA010680.