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The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) was entered on November 23, 1998, originally between the four largest United States tobacco companies (Philip Morris Inc., R. J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson and Lorillard – the "original participating manufacturers", referred to as the "Majors") and the attorneys general of 46 states.
The state is seeking $58 million from tobacco companies Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, alleging that they underpaid what they owe Minnesota in a landmark 1998 lawsuit settlement over the ...
Tony Gwynn's family finally reached a settlement in their long-standing wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company.
TTID contains over 14 million documents produced by major tobacco companies and organizations, many of them internal strategic memoranda made public as a consequence of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. The documents deal with the tobacco industry's advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities for the ...
The state of Georgia in 2022 paid Lewis’ family a $4.8 million settlement to avoid a lawsuit. The U.S. Attorney's Office for Georgia's Southern District, which reached the non-prosecution deal ...
In the 1990s, Scruggs was hired by Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore to assist with a lawsuit against thirteen tobacco companies for state-borne health care costs. Scruggs and his colleagues brought a concerted action, representing several states, which resulted in a settlement of over $248 billion. [ 15 ]
A settlement has been reached by the family of Julian Lewis and the state after Lewis was shot and killed by a Georgia State trooper in 2020.
To the extent that a tobacco product manufacturer establishes that the amount it was required to place into escrow on account of units sold in the state in a particular year was greater than the Master settlement agreement payments, as determined under section IX(i) of the Master settlement agreement including after final determination of all ...