A few months ago Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison quietly decided to cross the line and take the plaintiff's side in a contingency fee case against tobacco companies. This marked the first time that a ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut smoker who won $8 million against a tobacco company in May, the first such jury award in New England, has been awarded $4 million in punitive damages and stands to get ...

NEW HAVEN -- A Connecticut smoker who won $8 million against a tobacco company in May, the first such jury award in New England, has been awarded $4 million in punitive damages and stands to get ...

The Florida Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that thousands of Engle progeny lawsuits can continue against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. The decision appears to increase the odds that the U.S.

Unless it is overturned on appeal, Weinstein's ruling will allow millions of current and former smokers of light cigarettes to join a class-action suit in which damages could reach beyond $120 billion ...

Veteran litigator Willie Gary is trying his first tobacco case on behalf of an elderly smoker in Tampa with cancer of the larynx and esophagus. A plaintiff lawyer who claims more than 150 verdicts and ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declined today to consider a lawsuit accusing tobacco companies of turning minors into smokers by targeting them with cigarette advertising. The California Supreme Court ...