The Massachusetts attorney general has reached a $600 million settlement with major tobacco manufacturers, resolving some of the state’s complaints over how much the tobacco companies owe it under a 1998 master settlement with the industry. While the manufacturers have …
Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and more than a dozen other tobacco companies were sued by Iowa’s attorney general for allegedly failing to pay the state $133 million due under a 1998 settlement intended to avoid future health-related …
New Mexico this year will receive the largest tobacco settlement payment it has ever received from the industry. The state attorney general’s office made the $50 million announcement this week, saying the payment includes an additional $14.5 million as a …
Mississippi’s attorney general says the nation’s largest tobacco company will pay the state $15 million to settle claims that it was underreporting the number of cigarettes it was shipping to the state. Attorney General Jim Hood announced the settlement with …
State lawmakers are trying to figure out how to enforce the terms of a settlement reached with the nation’s largest tobacco companies. What’s at stake: About $100 million in state revenue every year that pays for a host of agricultural, …
North Carolina’s annual share of payments from top cigarette companies paying for smoking-related health care costs is $211 million. North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper notified Gov. Pat McCrory and legislative leaders on Friday how much money was going to …
The landmark 1998 national settlement between 46 states and 19 tobacco companies is valid and doesn’t amount to a conspiracy or anti-competitive behavior by the government, a federal appeals court ruled this week. The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals …
A Jackson County judge is scheduled to hear a claim that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has underpaid the state of Mississippi at least $1 million in the tobacco settlement payments. Jackson County Chancery Judge Jaye Bradley will preside Monday over …
