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In the forty years through 1994, over 800 private claims were brought against tobacco companies in state courts across the country. [4] The individuals asserted claims for negligent manufacture, negligent advertising, fraud, and violation of various state consumer protection statutes. The tobacco companies were successful against these lawsuits.
In February 2020, Gilstrap determined that tobacco manufacturer R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company must continue making its full portion of an $8 billion annual payment to the State of Texas pursuant to a 1998 Settlement Agreement. [38] In 1996, Texas brought historic litigation against all major tobacco manufacturers, including Reynolds, asserting ...
He served as the 48th Attorney General of Texas from January 15, 1991, through January 13, 1999, during the administrations of Governors Ann Richards and George W. Bush. As Attorney General, Morales reached a $17 billion settlement with big tobacco companies. He also authored the controversial state interpretation of the Hopwood v.
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That was the situation in 1998, when Philip Morris, along with several other of the world's largest tobacco companies, ended years of litigation with 46 states through a master settlement ...
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Merrell Williams Jr. (January 26, 1941 – November 18, 2013) was a whistleblower in the tobacco industry, revealing secret papers of tobacco companies showing that the companies had been lying to the public. It eventually resulted in a multi-billion-dollar settlement with the US states.
The case eventually resulted in a $17.3 billion settlement, at that point the largest legal settlement in American history. [4] In 2000, Williams represented the family of a worker who had been killed in a June 1999 explosion at the Phillips Petroleum Co. chemical plant in Houston, Texas. The jury in the case eventually decided to grant the ...