A $5 million settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against a chewing tobacco company.

According to court documents, the lawsuit was filed by the family of Bobby Hill, a North Carolina man who died in 2005 as a result of tongue cancer. The lawsuit named U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co. as the defendant. Hill’s family calimed he used the company’s products since he was 13.

The wrongful death lawsuit accuses Smokeless Tobacco Co., makers of Skoal and Copenhagen chewing tobacco, of selling a defective product, which is addictive and sometimes lethal, without properly warning consumers about the potential risks associated with chewing tobacco side effects. The family alleged that chewing tobacco was being marketed as a harmless alternative to cigarettes.

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The father of a 15 year-old girl who died after an asthma attack last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the operators of a haunted house.

According to the lawsuit, the haunted house failed to warn people with respiratory problems of the existence of fog inside the venuel. The family of 15 year-old Brittney Holmes belives the fog and scents triggered her fatal asthma attack. The operators of the Darkness Haunted House claim three ten-foot signs outside the venue carried sufficient warnings.

According to court documents, Holmes vistited the haunted house in October 2009 and suffered an asthma attack on the ride home, which deprived her brain of oxygen. Homes died in November after spending a year in a vegatative state.

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Michael Jackson’s father, Joe Jackson, has re-filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the physician who was treating his son at the time of his death.

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in California Superior Court by Jackson’s attorney Brian Oxman. The filing claims that Murray wrongfully provided painkillers, including the anesthetic propofol and a “polypharmacy” of other drugs that resulted in Michael Jackson’s death. Murray is also accused of evidence tampering at the scene of Jackson’s death. He reportedly asked security guards to clean the singer’s room before police arrived, according to the filing.

The re-filed wrongful death lawsuit also names Las Vegas Applied Pharmacy Services, claiming the company was negligent in selling the drugs to Murray.

Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest on June 25, 2009. His death was ruled an overdose on painkillers.

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A jury in Florida has ordered R.J. Reynolds to pay $80 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the daughter of a man who smoked for six decades and died of lung cancer in 1996.

According to court documents, Dianne Webb filed a wrongful death lawsuit over the death of her father, James Cayce Horner, claiming his death was caused by an addiction to smoking. Jurors found the cigarette maker was 90 percent at fault in Horner’s death. Horner, said to have smoked two packs a day, was 10 percent to blame, according to the jury.

The award consists of $8 million in compensatory damages and $72 million in punitive damages. David Sales, Webb’s attorney, said he is satisfied with the ruling. “People need to be reminded, again and again, of the true cost in precious human life, that R.J. Reynolds has imposed and continues to impose on our society,” Sales said.

R.J. Reynolds spokesman David Howard said the company will appeal the verdict. “We’re disappointed with the jury’s decision in the matter,” Howard said.

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A jury in New York returned a $154,000 verdict against a hospital in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after he was given an incorrect painkiller.

A state Supreme Court jury deliberated for nearly four hours before finding that the family of Leo Bruce Sr. should be compensated for his January 2005 death at Glens Falls Hospital. The 66 year-old was given a powerful dose of the painkiller OxyContin that was meant for his hospital roommate, during a stay at the hospital last year. Bruce was pronounced dead about 12 hours later.

Bruce, who suffered from a breathing disorder,  had been admitted to the hospital for observation when a nurse wrongly gave him the painkiller, which was meant for a cancer patient in the next bed. OxyContin can depress respiration, and the hospital admitted liability in the death.

Bruce’s family and the hospital set a range for damages, between $100,000 and $325,000, agreeing not to appeal if the verdict fell between those figures.

“I think the jury made a reasonable analysis,” said attorney William Nikas, who represents the Bruce family. “Everyone was satisfied.”

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A preliminary hearing will be held in Orange County, Florida Thursday afternoon in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Disney monorail driver who was killed on the job.

The wrongful death lawsuit, filed against the Disney Corporation, was brought by family members on behalf of 21 year-old Austin Wuenenberg, who was killed in a crash involving two monorail trains at Walt Disney World in July 2009. According to the lawsuit, Disney has not been forthcoming with information surrounding the incident. A lawyer for the Wunnenberg’s family said Thursday’s hearing involves a motion by the plaintiff to get more access to records that Disney claims are confidential.

An investigation into the incident by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office revealed the supervisor in charge of switching the two monorail trains was at an off-property restaurant at the time of the crash, and could not see the trains he was directing.

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