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Punitive Damages Award Vacated On Repose Statute In Tobacco Death Case

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - (Mealey's) The $5 million punitive damages portion of what was originally an $8 million verdict has been vacated by a Florida appeals court, which found May 2 that the reliance required for the fraudulent concealment claim...

Published Thu, May 3 2012 4:40 PM by Michael Lefkowitz

Filed under: litigation, punitive damages, verdict, tobacco, Florida, smoking, Philip Morris USA, Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Elaine Hess, Stuart Hess, statute of repose

$4 Million In Compensatory Damages Awarded By Connecticut Jury In Prempro Breast Cancer Trial

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - (Mealey's) A Connecticut federal jury on April 18 awarded a plaintiff and her husband $4 million in compensatory damages after finding that the hormone replacement therapy drug Prempro caused the plaintiff's breast cancer (...

Published Thu, Apr 19 2012 3:40 PM by Tom Moylan

Filed under: litigation, punitive damages, compensatory damages, Pfizer, hormone replacement therapy, breast cancer, Prempro, Connecticut, Margaret B. Fraser v. Wyeth, Margaret Fraser, Joseph Fraser

Florida Appeals Court Vacates $79.2 Million Verdict In Tobacco Death Case

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - (Mealey's) A $79.2 million verdict on behalf of the daughter of a smoker who died from lung cancer was vacated as excessive on April 9 by the First District Florida Court of Appeal ( R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, v. Diane Webb...

Published Tue, Apr 10 2012 4:59 PM by Michael Lefkowitz

Filed under: litigation, punitive damages, verdict, compensatory damages, RJR, tobacco, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., cigarettes, smoker, lung cancer, wrongful death, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, f James Cayce Horner, Diane Webb, v. Diane Webb

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Tobacco Verdicts From Florida To Stand

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on March 26 let stand tens of millions of dollars in Florida state court compensatory and punitive damages verdicts against tobacco companies and set the stage for potentially thousands of additional...

Published Tue, Mar 27 2012 4:30 PM by Michael Lefkowitz

Filed under: U.S. Supreme Court, punitive damages, compensatory damages, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco v. Martin, Florida verdicts

Florida Jury Awards Widow Of Smoker $25 Million In Punitive Damages

MIAMI - (Mealey's) A Florida jury on March 6 ordered cigarette maker Lorillard Inc. to pay the widow of a smoker $25 million in punitive damages, one week after the jury awarded her $16 million in compensatory damages ( Dorothy Alexander v. Lorillard...

Published Wed, Mar 7 2012 3:17 PM by Michael Lefkowitz

Filed under: litigation, punitive damages, compensatory damages, Engle v. Liggett Group, tobacco, Florida, smoking, Lorillard, tobacco companies, cigarette, Dorothy Alexander, Coleman Alexander, Dorothy Alexander v. Lorillard Tobacco Co.

Teva Settles 'Vast Majority' Of Propofol Vial/Hepatitis C Infection Cases In Nevada

NORTH WALES, Pa. - (Mealey's) Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. has agreed to settle "the vast majority" of its propofol vial/hepatitis C cases, a company spokesperson said Feb. 21. Teva did not disclose the amount of the settlement or...

Published Tue, Feb 21 2012 4:34 PM by Tom Moylan

Filed under: litigation, punitive damages, verdict, settlement, Henry Chanin, compensatory damages, preemption, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Nevada, hepatitis C, Baxter Healthcare Corp., colonoscopy, propofol vial, Teva Parenteral Medicines Inc. v. Henry Chanin, Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries, Sicor Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Florida Appeals Court Rules $40.8 Million Award Excessive In Tobacco Case

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - (Mealey's) A Florida appeals court on Feb. 14 overturned a $40.8 million punitive damages verdict in a tobacco wrongful death case as excessive but let stand a $10.8 million award of compensatory damages, the highest so far in...

Published Tue, Feb 14 2012 5:00 PM by Michael Lefkowitz

Filed under: litigation, punitive damages, verdict, compensatory damages, Engle v. Liggett Group, tobacco, Florida, wrongful death, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Lyantie Townsend, Lyantie Townsend, Liggett Group LLC v. Campbell, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Martin

How Your Elected Legislators Have Chiseled Away Your Legal Rights

By Keith Ecker, a reporter for Lawyers.com, www.lawyers.com/our-blog There is a battle being fought at the highest levels of government over your right to file a medical malpractice or defective drug lawsuit. On the one hand are pro-business groups that...

Published Mon, Nov 21 2011 1:52 PM by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

Filed under: tort reform, punitive damages, medical malpractice caps, arbitration, FDA, product liability, health care reform, free speech, class action lawsuits, conflict of interest, Super PACS, consumer rights, lobbying, legal rights

Jury In 5th Prempro MDL Bellwether Finds Wyeth Didn't Fail To Warn About Cancer

JONESBORO, Ark. - (Mealey's) The fifth bellwether trial in the Prempro multidistrict litigation ended in a defense verdict on Oct. 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas after a jury found that Wyeth did not inadequately...

Published Fri, Oct 21 2011 5:05 PM by Tom Moylan

Filed under: litigation, punitive damages, verdict, multidistrict litigation, Prempro, Wyeth, failure to warn, Gloria Jean Curtis v. Wyeth, hormone replacement drug, Gloria Jean Curtis

Nevada Jury Awards $104 Million In Compensatory, Punitive Damages In Propofol Case

LAS VEGAS - (Mealey's) A Nevada state court jury on Oct. 12 ordered a maker and distributor of generic propofol to pay $90 million in punitive damages in a case in which a plaintiff claimed that he was infected as a result of reusable "jumbo"...

Published Thu, Oct 13 2011 2:37 PM by Tom Moylan

Filed under: litigation, punitive damages, compensatory damages, Propofol, Baxter Healthcare, Teva, drugs and devices, anesthetic, Nevada, hepatitis C, Endoscopy Centers of Southern Nevada, Teva Parenteral Medicine, Michael Washington v. Scior, colonoscopy, Scior Inc., Scior, Michael Washington

Nevada Propofol Defendants Ordered To Pay $162.5 Million In Punitive Damages

LAS VEGAS - (Mealey's) Three defendants in a Nevada state court propofol/hepatitis C infection case on Oct. 10 were ordered by a jury to pay the three plaintiffs $162.5 million in punitive damages ( Richard C. Sacks v. Endoscopy Centers of Southern...

Published Tue, Oct 11 2011 11:00 PM by Tom Moylan

Filed under: litigation, punitive damages, Teva Parenteral Medicines Inc., Propofol, drugs and devices, anesthetic, Nevada, hepatitis C, Richard C. Sacks v. Endoscopy Centers of Southern Nevada, McKesson Corp., Baxter Healthcare Corp.

Illinois High Court Won't Block Reopening Of $10.1 Billion Light Cigarette Case

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - (Mealey's) The Illinois Supreme Court on Sept. 28 declined to hear Philip Morris Inc.'s appeal of an intermediate appeals court ruling that reopens a case that resulted in a $10.1 billion verdict against the tobacco giant for...

Published Thu, Sep 29 2011 3:12 PM by Michael Lefkowitz

Filed under: lawsuit, litigation, punitive damages, class action, tobacco, Illinois Supreme Court, Federal Trade Commission, Philip Morris, smoking, compensatory, cigarette, light cigarettes, tar and nicotine, deceptive advertising, Sharon Price, Michael Fruth, Sharon Price v. Philip Morris Incorporated

Smoker Gets Punitive Damages Award 16 Times Compensatory Damages

In Bullock v. Philip Morris (California Court of Appeal, Second District, Case No. B222596) the court affirmed a punitive damage award that is 16 times compensatory damages. The jury ultimately awarded Bullock $850,000 in compensatory damages and $13...

Published Tue, Sep 6 2011 3:06 PM by Dave Tate

Filed under: litigation, punitive damages, compensatory damages, smoking, cancer, Bullock v. Philip Morris, reprehensible conduct

U.S. Supreme Court Declines To Hear Prempro/Premarin Punitive Damages Appeal

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on June 20 declined to review a Nevada Supreme Court decision affirming a $35 million punitive damages award in a Prempro/Premarin injury case ( Wyeth LLC, et al., v. Jeraldine Scofield, et al....

Published Mon, Jun 20 2011 2:33 PM by Tom Moylan

Filed under: litigation, U.S. Supreme Court, punitive damages, Prempro, Wyeth, hormone replacement drugs, Wyeth LLC v. Jeraldine Scofield, Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, Nevada Supreme Court, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, Premarin, injury case

Jury Awards Total Of $152 Million In Case Alleging Distribution Of Cigarettes To Children

BOSTON - (Mealey's) A Massachusetts jury added $81 million in punitive damages on Dec. 16 to the $71 million in compensatory damages it had awarded two days earlier to the estate and only son of a woman who said she began smoking free Newport cigarettes...

Published Fri, Dec 17 2010 11:45 AM by Michael Lefkowitz

Filed under: lawsuit, litigation, punitive damages, torts, personal injury, tobacco, Massachusetts, cigarettes, smoking, Lorillard, product liability, Roxbury, Marie Evans, jury verdict, Boston, Newport, Willie Evans