West Palm Beach, FL—A Harvard pulmonologist testified this week he has "no doubt in his mind" that a former railroad worker who was a 3-pack-a-day smoker now suffers from emphysema because of his 30-year smoking history, rather than exposure to locomotive fumes, as trial continued in the worker's suit against R.J. Reynolds. Hackimer v. R.J. Reynolds, 2014-CA-010849.
Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Florida, Hackimer v. R.J. Reynolds
Miami—PricewaterhouseCoopers settled a $5.5 billion accounting negligence case against it, midway through a Florida state court trial over the accounting giant’s alleged responsibility for failing to detect widespread fraud that led to the collapse of one of the nation’s largest home mortgage lenders. Taylor Bean & Whitaker Plan Trust v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 2013-033964-CA-01.
Topics: Negligence, Florida, Malpractice, Accounting, Taylor Bean Plan Trust v. PricewaterhouseCoopers
West Palm Beach, FL—Attorneys battled Wednesday over whether the statute of limitations bars a former smoker's suit against R.J. Reynolds for the respiratory disease that renders him dependent on an oxygen tank, as trial opened in the case. Hackimer v. R.J. Reynolds, 2014-CA-010849.
Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Hackimer v. R.J. Reynolds
Stephanie Parker delivers her closing argument for R.J. Reynolds at trial over the lung cancer death of Rebecca Fredenhagen. Jurors Thursday cleared Reynolds of responsibility for Fredenhagen's death.
Daytona Beach, FL—Jurors Thursday needed less than an hour to reject the claims of siblings who sought up to $8 million in compensatory damages plus untold punitives from R.J. Reynolds for the lung cancer death of their mother, a former Florida health department worker. Coursey v. R.J. Reynolds, 2013-30656-CICI.
Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Coursey v. R.J. Reynolds
Taylor, Bean & Whitaker former general counsel, Jeffery Cavender, engages in a heated exchange on cross exam over provisions of an agreement between the company and Colonial Bancgroup.
Miami—As the $5.5 billion accounting negligence trial against PricewaterhouseCoopers entered its third week Monday, the former general counsel of failed mortgage giant Taylor, Bean & Whitaker wrapped up two days of testimony over agreements that led to the company’s collapse, and caused one of the biggest bank failures of the Great Recession era. Taylor Bean & Whitaker Plan Trust v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 2013-033964-CA-01.
Topics: Negligence, Florida, Malpractice, Accounting, Taylor Bean Plan Trust v. PricewaterhouseCoopers
