tobacco lawsuit

The court denied the settlement because the couple was not married when the victim was first diagnosed in the 1990s — a time when Florida did not allow same sex marriages.

A smoker's estate went to the high court after the 5th District Court of Appeal overturned a decision by an Orange County jury to award $16 million, calling the amount “excessive.”

Justices on Wednesday will hear an appeal by the estate of a man who died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A Duval County jury awarded $6.4 million in compensatory damages, but an appeals court overturned the decision.

A jury awarded damages to the estate of Janice Hamilton, a smoker who died of lung cancer. But R.J. Reynolds argued in the appeal that a circuit judge improperly allowed a hearsay statement.

A South Florida appellate court has upheld a $7.25 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in a case filed by a man who smoked two packs of…

Siding with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., a state appeals court Tuesday tossed out a $3 million verdict in a lawsuit filed by the husband of a woman who...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a ruling that would have blocked an adult from collecting millions of dollars in damages in a lawsuit...