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Court tosses $5M punitive award in first ‘Engle’ case (access required)

Published: May 10, 2012

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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 (access required)

By: Kimberly Atkins
Published: April 9, 2012

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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 (access required)

By: Sylvia Hsieh
Published: March 15, 2012

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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 (access required)

Published: March 7, 2012

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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 (access required)

Published: March 1, 2012

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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 (access required)

Published: February 22, 2012

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The defense triumphed in the first individual tobacco trial held in Florida federal court.

Jury awards $25 million in tobacco case against Philip Morris (access required)

Published: February 17, 2012

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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 (access required)

Published: November 17, 2011

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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 (access required)

Published: November 3, 2011

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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 (access required)

By: Correy Stephenson
Published: October 6, 2011

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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.

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