
The Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) announced that on August 27, 2018 two tobacco lawsuits tried this month in St. Thomas have concluded with verdicts totaling $113.3 million. The cases, Gerald v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Brown v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., were brought by the children of two deceased smokers who had been hooked on Newport cigarettes as minors, according to the release.
New England Trial Services was there to support the plaintiffs in both milestone cases against big tobacco and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.