The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
Another Florida verdict against big tobacco, with a $ 22 million award of punitive damages. The claims involved a woman who started smoking in her teens and died at 38. The plaintiff’s evidence is said to have focused on big tobacco targeting teens. Here is an article with several links to other articles with additional specifics.
From Canada and Japan: Yet Another Mass Tort Bankruptcy, and Possible Fraudulent Conveyance: Big Tob
A tobacco company is the latest entity to use bankruptcy to try to limit its obligations for a mass tort. This instance, however, is different because the bankruptcy is in Canada, ownership of the tob
The $15 billion or so Quebec class action verdict in Canada against tobacco companies was upheld late on Friday in a 440 page opinion, in French. It will interesting to watch the reactions of stock ma
Trial has finally arrived for the long-pending and much litigated Donovan class action against big tobacco in federal court in Massachusetts. For big tobacco, delay apparently is perceived as a frien