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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.

Florida jury awards $27M in ‘Engle’ tobacco case 

By: Kimberly Atkins
Published: April 9, 2012

Tags: punitive damages, tobacco, verdict, ‘Engle’ litigation

A Florida jury has awarded $27 million – including a $20 million punitive award – to a former smoker who lost a lung to cancer.

$41 million tobacco verdict breaks recent defense streak 

By: Sylvia Hsieh
Published: March 15, 2012

Tags: Engle, Engle litigation, tobacco, tobacco litigation

A jury has awarded $41 million to the wife of a man who died from lung cancer in 1995 – a verdict that broke a recent string of low verdicts and hung juries in the ongoing Engle progeny litigation against tobacco companies. The decedent began smoking in 1950 at the age of 14 and was apportioned 20 percent fault.

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.

Florida court tosses $2 million award in ‘Engle’ case 

Published: March 1, 2012

Tags: Engle, Engle litigation, lung cancer, Philip Morris, tobacco, tobacco litigation, wrongful death

Philip Morris will not have to pay $2 million to the husband of a deceased smoker after a Florida appeals court decided last week that his lawsuit was barred by the state’s statute of limitations.

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.

Jury awards $25 million in tobacco case against Philip Morris 

Published: February 17, 2012

Tags: low-tar cigarettes, Oregon, Philip Morris, tobacco

A Multnomah County, Ore. jury has awarded $25 million in a low-tar tobacco verdict against Philip Morris.

West Virginia tobacco suit ends in mistrial 

Published: November 17, 2011

Tags: Engle, mistrial, tobacco, tobacco litigation

A large-scale tobacco suit on behalf of more than 600 plaintiffs ended in a mistrial last week.

Tobacco defendants win two straight Engle verdicts 

Published: November 3, 2011

Tags: Engle, Engle litigation, Florida, smoking, tobacco

The tobacco industry defendants have won two more defense verdicts in the individual trials in Florida known as the Engle litigation.

Latest ‘Engle’ cases split 

By: Correy Stephenson
Published: October 6, 2011

Tags: Engle, Engle litigation, tobacco, tobacco litigation

As the individual tobacco trials in Florida roll on, the mixed results continue.

One jury recently sided with the defense in the case of a man who died of emphysema, while a second jury awarded $1.5 million to a plaintiff who died of esophageal cancer.