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November saw a full slate of big-ticket tobacco trials in courts across the country. Check out some of the top stories in CVN’s tobacco litigation coverage last month.
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Topics: tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Massachusetts
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Jacksonville, FL— Jurors last week awarded $6 million to a Florida woman after finding R.J. Reynolds responsible for the respiratory disease she developed after decades of smoking. Wydra v. R.J. Reynolds.
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Topics: tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Wydra v. R.J. Reynolds
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Lowell, MA— Jurors Wednesday cleared the nation’s two largest cigarette makers of responsibility for a Massachusetts man’s throat cancer death after decades of smoking. Babaletos v. R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, 1881CV03523.
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Topics: tobacco, Massachusetts, Babaletos v. Philip Morris, et al.
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Jacksonville, FL— As trial opened last week against R.J. Reynolds over a Florida woman’s respiratory disease, claims surrounding the disease’s onset promise to play a key role in the case. Wydra v. R.J. Reynolds.
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Topics: Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Wydra v. R.J. Reynolds
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Viera, FL— Jurors heard opposing claims of what drove a Florida man to smoke for more than 40 years before his lung cancer death, as trial opened across Friday and Monday against R.J. Reynolds. Morse v. R.J. Reynolds, 2008-CA-006848.
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Topics: tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Morse v. R.J. Reynolds
