Canada Court Approves $23 Billion Settlement to End Big Tobacco Lawsuits March 7, 2025 A Canadian court approved a plan to settle long-running tobacco lawsuits in the country as part of which the units...
Philip Morris Must Pay $37M to Cancer Victim, Massachusetts High Court Rules May 10, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson Tobacco company Philip Morris USA must pay $37 million to a Massachusetts woman who developed cancer from smoking Marlboro Lights...
Juul Labs Fails to Knock Out Racketeering Claims in Lawsuits About Marketing Conduct April 14, 2021 By Joel Rosenblatt Juul Labs Inc. failed to knock out racketeering claims in lawsuits accusing it of deliberately targeting teenagers, as individual founders...
Juul’s Defense of Marketing E-Cigarettes to Youth Targets Use of Organized Crime Law September 23, 2020 By Edvard Pettersson Juul Labs Inc. has the Mafia to thank for the most potent legal claims accusing the e-cigarette maker of igniting...
States Study Tobacco Lawsuit Tactics for Fight Over Opioid Costs June 14, 2017 By Jef Feeley and John Lauerman State and local leaders fighting a worsening opioid abuse epidemic are studying tactics used in the tobacco lawsuits of the...
Alaska Jury Deadlocked in Family’s Lawsuit Against Tobacco Company November 18, 2016 After more than three weeks, a Bethel Superior Court jury cannot decide whether or not a tobacco company misled an...
Family of MLB Star Gwynn Sues Tobacco Companies in California May 25, 2016 By Alex Dobuzinskis The family of the late baseball star Tony Gwynn, a Hall of Famer who played with the San Diego Padres,...
Mississippi Settles Some Tobacco Claims for $15M July 9, 2015 By Jeff Amy Mississippi’s attorney general says the nation’s largest tobacco company will pay the state $15 million to settle claims that it...
Kentucky Lawmakers Tackle Details of $100M Tobacco Settlement March 13, 2015 By Adam Beam State lawmakers are trying to figure out how to enforce the terms of a settlement reached with the nation’s largest...
Florida Tobacco Ruling Applies in Federal Cases, Court Says September 9, 2013 By Bob Van Voris Reynolds American Inc.’s R.J. Reynolds Tobacco unit lost its bid to overturn jury verdicts over smoking-related deaths after arguing that...