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West Palm Beach, FL— Attorneys debated whether a South Florida-based nutrition company and the green tea extract it sold are responsible for the disease that cost a Texas man his liver, as trial opened against the company Wednesday. McCants v. Vitacost.com, Inc., 2016-CA-004982.
Topics: Products Liability, Florida, McCants v. Vitacost.com Inc.
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Fort Lauderdale, FL— Jurors this week awarded $10 million to the family of a Florida smoker whose cancer death they linked to cigarettes and a tobacco industry scheme to hide their dangers. Neff v. R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, 2007-CV-036745.
Topics: Engle Progeny, Florida, Neff v. R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris
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Fort Lauderdale, FL— Philip Morris was hit with an $800,000 punitive verdict Tuesday for its role in the cancer an alcohol abuse counselor developed after years of smoking the company’s cigarettes. McCall v. Philip Morris, 2007-CV-036888.
Topics: tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, McCall v. Philip Morris
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Fort Lauderdale, FL—Attorneys Thursday debated the role tobacco marketing and nicotine addiction played in the death of a 71-year-old woman who smoked for more than half a century, as trial opened against the country’s two largest cigarette makers. Neff v. R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, 2007-CV-036745.
Topics: tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Neff v. R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris
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Fort Lauderdale, FL—A Florida state court jury hit the nation’s two largest tobacco companies with a $37 million total damage award for the role it found the companies played in a woman’s death after losing a lung to cancer. Mahfuz v. R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, 2007-CV-036743.
Topics: tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Mahfuz v. R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris
