Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Judicial economy#Class action lawsuits; Kaplan, Inc.#Class-action lawsuit; Keele Valley Landfill#Resident class action lawsuit; Kemper Corporation#Class-action lawsuit; Kids for cash scandal#Victim lawsuits; Kweku Hanson#Class action lawsuit against Ocwen Federal FSB; Lead contamination in Washington, D.C. drinking water#Class-action lawsuit
Recently, there has been mixed success for plaintiffs in tobacco litigation. In Florida, a large class action lawsuit was rejected, because the court argued that each individual case must be proven. [25] As a result, thousands of individual lawsuits were filed against tobacco companies, but many of these verdicts are now in appeal. [26]
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.
Many of these cases have lead to class action lawsuits and proceedings by the Federal Trade Commision (FTC), resulting in a number of settlements worth millions — or even billions — of dollars ...
The lawsuits drove the company to declare bankruptcy in 1995, before it agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle claims from 240,000 women in amounts ranging from $2,000 to $250,000 each in 2004 ...
The various lawsuits were rolled into one class-action lawsuit, and in 2011, Kellogg settled for $5 million — $2.5 million would be paid to consumers, and $2.5 million worth of Kellogg’s ...
The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies who are engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. [1] It is a global industry; tobacco can grow in any warm, moist environment, which means it can be farmed on all continents except Antarctica .
United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc. [1] was a case in which the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held several major tobacco companies liable for violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act [2] by engaging in numerous acts of fraud to further a conspiracy to deceive the American public about nicotine addiction and the health effects ...