N.Y. smokers can’t sue Philip Morris 
Published: May 6, 2013
Tags: cigarettes, medical monitoring, negligence, Philip Morris, product liability, strict liability, tobacco litigation
Long-time smokers could not sue Philip Morris for manufacturing cigarettes that allegedly contained unnecessarily dangerous levels of carcinogens, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in affirming a dismissal.
Gov’t won’t appeal ruling on graphic cigarette warnings
Published: April 1, 2013
Tags: cigarettes, Department of Justice, DOJ, FDA, First Amendment, Food and Drug Administration, Liggett Group, Lorillard, R.J. Reynolds, tobacco labeling
The Department of Justice has decided not to appeal a court decision striking down the Food and Drug Administration’s new graphic warnings on cigarette packages on First Amendment grounds.
Benchmarks: Fla. court upholds $15.2M smoker verdict
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: January 9, 2013
Tags: cigarettes, Engle litigation, product liability, wrongful death
A Florida appeals court has upheld a $15.2 million jury award to the family of a two-pack-a-day smoker who died from lung cancer.
In affirming the judgment last month, the Florida Court of Appeal (1st District) decided that the wrongful death suit against Lorillard Tobacco Company was properly tried as an Engle progeny case.
Benchmarks: Fla. court slashes $16.2M from smoker award
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: December 3, 2012
Tags: cigarettes, Engle litigation, Philip Morris, products liability, statute of repose, tobacco litigation
A Florida appeals court has overturned a jury’s award of $16.2 million in punitive damages to a now-deceased cigarette smoker, concluding that Philip Morris should have been allowed to present a statute of repose defense to the smoker’s fraud-based conspiracy claim.
Benchmarks: Tobacco giants would admit ‘lies’ under judge’s order
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: November 29, 2012
Tags: cigarettes, product liability, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO, tobacco litigation
A federal judge has ordered the nation’s top cigarette makers to issue public statements to correct decades of “false and misleading” claims about the dangers and addictiveness of smoking.
Tobacco companies hit with $75 million verdict
By:
Ruth Sheehan
Published: June 13, 2012
Tags: cigarettes, Engle litigation, Florida, pain and suffering, tobacco, wrongful death
Johnnie Calloway hadn’t started high school when he and his brother snuck their first cigarettes. At age 59, the cement worker died of heart disease and bladder cancer, still smoking two packs a day.
On May 31, his widow and daughter were awarded $75 million by a Broward County, Fla. jury in the latest of the Engle cases to go to trial.
Court tosses $5M punitive award in first ‘Engle’ case
Published: May 10, 2012
Tags: Benson & Hedges, cigarettes, Engle, Engle litigation, fraudulent concealment, Philip Morris, punitive damages, statute of repose, tobacco, tobacco litigation
A Florida appellate panel has overturned a $5 million award of punitive damages against Philip Morris in the first individual case to go to trial under the state’s court-imposed procedures for product liability suits against cigarette manufacturers.
Smoker’s widow wins $25 million in punitives against Lorillard
Published: March 7, 2012
Tags: cigarettes, Florida, Lorillard, Lorillard Inc., punitive damages, tobacco, wrongful death
Lorillard Inc., the maker of Newport cigarettes, was ordered to pay a Florida widow $25 million in punitive damages by a Miami jury, the week after she was awarded $16 million in compensatory damages.
First federal Engle suit results in verdict for the defense
Published: February 22, 2012
Tags: cigarettes, Engle, Engle litigation, Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, tobacco, tobacco litigation
The defense triumphed in the first individual tobacco trial held in Florida federal court.
Philip Morris wins first smoker trial in Alaska
Published: December 8, 2011
Tags: cigarettes, Engle, Engle litigation, Philip Morris, smoking, tobacco litigation
Philip Morris USA has announced a unanimous verdict in its favor in the first individual smoking case to be tried in Alaska.
