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LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles judge ruled Thursday that a $3 billion award against Philip Morris Inc. was excessive but said that he will order a retrial only if the cancer-stricken plaintiff declines to accept a record-breaking...
...defeat late Tuesday, when a state appeals court in San Francisco upheld a landmark $26.5 million verdict against Philip Morris Inc. in a case brought by a lung cancer victim who smoked its Marlboro brand. The ruling in the closely watched case...
...now says all cigarettes should be manufactured so they extinguish themselves if smokers don't stamp them out. Philip Morris Inc. has joined health and safety advocates in backing legislation scheduled to be introduced in Congress Thursday that...
...down, lawyers for both sides spoke of death -- the death of Big Tobacco and the deaths of millions of smokers. Philip Morris Inc. attorney Dan Webb said a multibillion-dollar punitive damage award would be a ''death warrant'' for the nation's...
...closing down after publication of its August issue, in part because it lost advertising revenue from tobacco maker Philip Morris Inc., executives said. Sport, covering professional and collegiate basketball, football and hockey, had a circulation...
...pay punitive damages in a case involving up to 700,000 sick Florida smokers. Attorney Dan Webb, who represents Philip Morris Inc., doesn't want jurors to award punitive damages at all. But he suggested during closing arguments Tuesday that...
...issued a preliminary ruling Thursday indicating he will dismiss the class-action lawsuit filed in 1998 against Philip Morris Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. and Lorillard Tobacco Co. Plaintiffs must decide...
...Florida smokers. ''There's probably not a country in the world that can withstand a verdict this size,'' said Philip Morris Inc. attorney Dan Webb, whose company on Friday was ordered to pay $73.96 billion. Defendants were confident that...
...enormous changes'' made in their industry in recent years. The panel was scheduled to hear testimony today from Philip Morris Inc. CEO Michael Szymanczyk, the first of five executives expected to take the stand on a potential multibillion-dollar...
...decertified," said Daniel W. Donahue, deputy general counsel for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., which along with Philip Morris Inc., Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., Lorillard Tobacco Co., and Liggett Group Inc., was found liable in the...