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Showing posts with label tobacco. Show all posts
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Wrongful death depends on viability of decedent's action at time of death, Mass. high court rules

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Via Picryl When a statute of limitations precluded smokers' suits against tobacco makers, the smokers' families also could not sue i...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Mass. court affirms big verdict against Big Tobacco

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Autodesigner via Wikimedia Commons CC0 1.0 Last week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a lung cancer victim's verdic...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Opioid settlement disbursements must be transparent, state high court rules in row over nonprofit foundation

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The nonprofit foundation responsible for disbursing hundreds of millions of dollars of opioid settlement money in Ohio is subject to state f...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Flawed instruction on 'reasonable alternative design' requires vacatur of tobacco defense judgment

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Plaintiff's decedent started smoking in the early 1960s, at age 13 or 14, with free samples of Kents. (David Shay CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wiki...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Court affirms widow's $21m verdict vs. Big Tobacco, upholds punitive damages despite '98 settlement

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Marlboro Red Open Box by Sarah Johnson ( CC BY 2.0 ) The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today affirmed a $21m verdict against Phili...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Book Review: The Experimental Society by Marshall S. Shapo

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Catching up on reading since the close of the spring semester, I just finished Professor Marshall Shapo’s The Experimental Society (Trans...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Big Tobacco wins in Mass. trial for medical monitoring

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Big Tobacco's Philip Morris prevailed in a product liability jury trial in Massachusetts in late September.  Hat tip: Torts Today . Th...