FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Philip Morris has been ordered to pay $300 million in damages to a former smoker in Florida. It's the largest award to date among thousands of lawsuits filed in the state ...
ST. PAUL (AP) — Injured smokers should receive at least a third of the state’s $6.1 billion tobacco settlement, say attorneys who have filed a potential class-action lawsuit on their behalf. “We don’t ...
NEW YORK – In a blow to the tobacco industry, a federal judge ruled Monday that a jury should decide whether tobacco companies must pay tens of millions of smokers up to $200 billion for allegedly ...
Reporting from MIAMI — A Florida jury has slammed the nation’s No. 2 cigarette maker, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., with $23.6 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the widow of a longtime ...