August 30, 2011
A Connecticut federal judge ruled Friday that R.J. Reynolds Co. should not get a new trial after a long-time smoker won $28 million in damages against the tobacco giant in her lawsuit accusing it of partly causing her throat cancer.
May 27, 2010
A Connecticut jury has handed down an $8.1 million compensatory damages award in favor of a woman who developed larynx cancer after smoking for more than two decades, in what the plaintiff's attorney said was the first such verdict in New England against a tobacco company.
March 11, 2010
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and a woman who claims she developed larynx cancer after smoking Salem-brand cigarettes are engaged in a bitter feud, with both sides in the long-running suit battling over the information that should be allowed at an upcoming trial.