Tobacco settlement

ITG must compensate Reynolds American for losses due, granting summary judgment in favor of Reynolds, which sold four brands to ITG to gain regulators' approval of its acquisition of Lorillard.

A report by state economists pointed to a forecast last month that cigarette sales would decline by 2.5 percent annually over the next decade.

The court denied the settlement because the couple was not married when the victim was first diagnosed in the 1990s — a time when Florida did not allow same sex marriages.

Faced with lawsuits from sick smokers, tobacco firms argue the health risks were "common knowledge" for decades, and they often pay professors to help make that point as expert witnesses.

A divided state appeals court this week upheld a nearly $6.4 million verdict in a case filed against cigarette-maker Philip Morris USA by the widow of a…

Tobacco settlement money used to prevent people from smoking has been extremely successful.But an amendment proposed by the state's Constitutional…