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Lorillard To Pay Smoker's Widow $20 Million In Damages

Posted by David Siegel on Mar 1, 2012 6:35:09 PM

MIAMI, FL - A jury has determined Lorillard Tobacco Company (NYSE: LO) must pay a deceased smoker's widow $20 million and possibly millions more in punitive damages at an ongoing civil trial in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court.

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Topics: Engle Progeny, Tobacco Litigation

Merck To Face Second Fosamax Trial in State Court

Posted by Courtroom View Network on Feb 22, 2012 2:41:51 PM

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - Opening statements are scheduled for March 1st in the second lawsuit to go to trial in state court involving the widely-prescribed drug Fosamax.

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Topics: Pharmaceutical, In re: Fosamax

CVN's Top 10 Favorite Videos of Fictional Courtroom Scenes

Posted by msch on Feb 9, 2012 4:01:00 PM

Here at Courtroom View Network we spend all day watching video of real trials in real courtrooms across the country. For a quick break, here are our Top 10 favorite fictional (or re-enacted) courtroom scenes, some of them more realistic than others…

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Topics: Top 10

Opening Statements Begin In Larkin v. RJ Reynolds

Posted by msch on Feb 2, 2012 11:00:00 AM

In Dade County Courthouse’s first Engle progeny trial of the year, jurors heard opening statements in the Larkin v. RJ Reynolds trial in front of Judge Valerie Manno-Schurr.  By the end of the first day, a theme developed in the courtroom around the nature of choices, made both by individuals who smoke cigarettes, and the companies that manufacture them.

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Topics: Toxic Torts, Engle Progeny, Larkin v. RJR, Tobacco Litigation

RJ Reynolds And Phillip Morris To Pay $2.5 Million In Damages

Posted by msch on Jan 27, 2012 5:26:00 PM

SEBRING, FL - The first major tobacco lawsuit of 2012 ended yesterday with RJ Reynolds (NYSE: RAI) and Philip Morris (NYSE: PM) being ordered to pay a combined $2.5 million in damages to a deceased smoker's surviving husband.

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Topics: Verdict, Hallgren v. RJR, Tobacco Litigation, CVN