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Tobacco Marketing's Role in UF Marketing Professor's Death a Key Issue as Trial Starts Against Philip Morris and RJR

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Dec 7, 2016 7:05:58 PM

Ray Persons delivers his opening statement for R.J. Reynolds, on trial with Philip Morris in a suit claiming the tobacco companies caused the nicotine addiction and heart disease death of John "Jack" Faricy.

Gainesville, FL—A sweeping conspiracy to hide the dangers and addictiveness of cigarettes ultimately killed a former University of Florida marketing professor, an attorney for the professor’s widow said as trial began Wednesday against the nation’s two biggest cigarette makers. Faricy-Pardue v. R.J. Reynolds, 2014-CA-2010.

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Topics: Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Faricy-Pardue v. R.J. Reynolds

COPD, Not Skin Cancer, Killed Smoker, Attorney Says at Trial Against Tobacco Cos.

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Dec 6, 2016 6:22:06 PM

Laura Shamp delivers her opening statement at trial against Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds. Shamp's client, Abigail Dubinsky, claims tobacco industry concealment of smoking's dangers killed her husband, Paul.

Viera, FL—Attorneys debated the role smoking and decades of alleged fraud played in the death of a Florida man as trial began Monday against two tobacco industry giants. Dubinsky v. Philip Morris, 2014-CA-026783.

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Topics: tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Dubinsky v. Philip Morris

$18.5M Award to Deceased Smoker's Adult Child Tossed Out as Excessive

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Dec 2, 2016 4:49:43 PM

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West Palm Beach, FL—A Florida appellate court this week threw out an $18.5 million award to the adult daughter of a long-time smoker who died from lung cancer, after finding the award against cigarette maker R.J. Reynolds was excessive.

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Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, odom v. r.j. reynolds

$6M+ Award to Smoker's Widower After $650K Punitive Verdict Against Tobacco Cos.

Posted by Meghan Gourley on Nov 21, 2016 6:08:07 PM

Fort Lauderdale, FL—Jurors Friday awarded $650,000 in punitive damages on top of a nearly $5.5 million compensatory judgment earlier in the week to the widower of a woman with a half-century smoking habit that left her with coronary heart disease and lung cancer. Martin v. Philip Morris, et al., 2007-CV-036440.

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Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Martin v. Philip Morris

$1M Verdict for Smoker with Late-Stage Emphysema in Trial Against RJR

Posted by Meghan Gourley on Nov 18, 2016 3:36:58 PM

West Palm Beach, FL—A Florida jury awarded more than $1 million to a woman with late-stage emphysema from a 40-year smoking habit at trial against the tobacco company accused of hiding the dangers of smoking while selling her cigarettes for decades. Ford v. R.J. Reynolds, 2016-CA-002230.

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Topics: Negligence, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, ford v. r.j. reynolds

Tobacco Marketing's Role in UF Marketing Professor's Death a Key Issue as Trial Starts Against Philip Morris and RJR

COPD, Not Skin Cancer, Killed Smoker, Attorney Says at Trial Against Tobacco Cos.

$18.5M Award to Deceased Smoker's Adult Child Tossed Out as Excessive

$6M+ Award to Smoker's Widower After $650K Punitive Verdict Against Tobacco Cos.

$1M Verdict for Smoker with Late-Stage Emphysema in Trial Against RJR

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