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Reasons Behind Nurse's Smoking Take Center Stage as Trial Against Tobacco Companies Opens

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Jan 13, 2016 1:07:47 PM

Cory Hohnbaum tells jurors Mary Howles smoked despite knowing the dangers of cigarettes. Howles is suing Philip Morris and Hohnbaum's client, R.J. Reynolds, claiming the tobacco companies are responsible for her cancer and respiratory disease. 


Fort Lauderdale, FL—Attorneys debated what drove a Florida nurse to smoke up to three packs of cigarettes a day for more than 30 years, before she developed lung cancer and respiratory disease, as trial opened this week in her suit against the nation’s two largest tobacco companies. Howles v. Philip Morris, et al., CACE07-34919.

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Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida

$35M Award Hammers Tobacco Giants in Trial over Airline Worker’s Fatal Cancer

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Dec 23, 2015 2:58:20 AM

 

Gary Paige tells jurors federal oversight and settlements should not mitigate against imposing punitive damages for Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds' role in the lung cancer death of Patricia Ledoux. 


Miami—Jurors awarded $35 million to the widower of an airline worker after finding the nation’s two largest cigarette manufacturers responsible for her fatal lung cancer. Ledoux v. R.J. Reynolds, et al., 07-CA-43991.

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Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Ledoux v. R.J. Reynolds

$11M Verdict Thumps R.J. Reynolds in Throat Cancer Trial

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Dec 10, 2015 7:19:24 AM

Juan Bauta argues Florence Monroe's throat cancer was caused by years of smoking R.J. Reynolds-brand cigarettes.


Quincy, FL—Jurors Wednesday awarded $11 million to a former smoker for the role they found R.J. Reynolds played in causing the throat cancer that took her voice box.  Florence Monroe v. R.J. Reynolds, 2013-CA-001121.  

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Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Monroe v. R.J. Reynolds

Big Three Tobacco Companies Win in Nonagenarian's $8M Bladder Cancer, Heart Disease Suit

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Dec 2, 2015 11:23:01 AM

Scott Schlesinger delivers closing arguments on behalf of his client, Robert Shulman, who claims the concealment of smoking's dangers by the nation's three largest tobacco companies caused his cancer, heart, and respiratory diseases. Jurors last week found in favor of the tobacco companies.  


 West Palm Beach, FL—Jurors last week cleared the nation’s three largest tobacco companies of liability for the cancer and heart and lung diseases a 95-year-old former former pilot claims stemmed from more than four decades of smoking. Shulman v. R.J. Reynolds, et al. 2007-CA-023832. 

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Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Florida, Shulman v. R.J. Reynolds, et al.

Judge Asked To Award $600M For Alleged False Marketing Of Marlboro Lights

Posted by David Siegel on Dec 2, 2015 12:48:00 AM

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Topics: tobacco, consumer protection, product liability