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14 Sep 2010, 1:13 pm by David Lat
., Fortress Investment Group, MBIA Inc. and Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, Mr. [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 10:10 pm by Lyle Denniston
Even with those items left out, Kessler’s sweeping injunction against seven companies (it did not reach the two trade groups, because they were going out of business, or Liggett, because it had changed its ways) would impose a multitude of obligations on the companies. [read post]
29 May 2010, 8:56 pm by Jon L. Gelman
Liggett Group, Inc., 459 F.3d 1304, 1309 (11th Cir. 2006) (noting that defendants have no obligation to reimburse Medicare until the defendants’ responsibility to pay a beneficiary’s expenses has been demonstrated). [read post]
29 May 2010, 8:52 pm by Jon L. Gelman
Liggett Group, Inc., 459 F.3d 1304, 1309 (11th Cir. 2006) (noting that defendants have no obligation to reimburse Medicare until the defendants’ responsibility to pay a beneficiary’s expenses has been demonstrated). [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 4:30 am by Jim Dedman
Liggett Group, the Court had gravitated toward a strict/text-based express preemption analysis advocated by Justice Scalia in dissent in Cipollone and subsequent cases, most recently Riegel v. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 3:15 pm
This comes nearly 8 years after the trial court found in 2002 that Defendants Philip Morris, Liggett Group, and Brown & Williamson were legally responsible for misrepresentation, fraud, civil conspiracy, and for knowingly manufacturing a dangerous and defective product. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 5:22 am by Joe Tort
The Third District Court of Appeal in Florida unanimously upheld a $24.8 million verdict against Phillip Morris USA, Brown & Williamson, and Liggett Group. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 1:22 am
The appellate panel offered no legal reasoning in its unsigned one-paragraph decision in John Lukacs' case against cigarette makers Philip Morris USA, Brown & Williamson and Liggett Group. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 6:23 pm by Joe Tort
Liggett Group, 945 So.2d 1246, the Florida Supreme Court decertified a smoker class action, but held that factual findings in a class action of cigarette smokers could be preclusive in subsequent actions by individual plaintiffs. [read post]
21 Aug 2009, 11:22 am
Liggett Group, which reversed a $145 billion class action punitive damages award and ruled that the plaintiffs had to bring their own individual cases to prove that cigarettes caused their illnesses.According to the Reuters story, the plaintiffs have prevailed in seven of the nine cases to go to trial thus far, winning damages ranging from $600,000 to $30 million. [read post]
20 Aug 2009, 8:34 am
HORRIGAN (Chairman and CEO of Liggett Group). [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 8:36 pm
Liggett Group, Inc., 945 So.2d 1246, 1265 (Fla. 2006) (Campbell requires decertification of punitive damages class and reversal of $145 billion verdict) (full disclosure - Bexis was on the defense team in Engle); EEOC v. [read post]
8 Jun 2009, 10:05 pm
The Bloomberg article also reported a recent "$8 million decision against Altria Group Inc.'s Philip Morris USA unit in February and a $700,000 verdict against Vector Group Ltd.'s Liggett Group unit last month. [read post]
31 May 2009, 6:02 pm
The verdict follows an $8 million decision against Altria Group Inc.'s Philip Morris USA unit in February and a $700,000 verdict against Vector Group Ltd.'s Liggett Group unit last month. [read post]