As of June 30, 2011, 139 individual cases were pending in the United States of America against Reynolds American Inc.’s subsidiaries, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR Tobacco), Brown & Williamson Holdings, Inc. (B&W), as its indemnitee, or both, the…
In City of St. Louis v. American Tobacco Co., Inc., filed in November 1998, in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, hospitals sought recovery of uncompensated, unreimbursed health-care costs expended or to be expended on behalf…
Discovery is underway in the smokeless tobacco litigation pending in Florida against a Reynolds American Inc. subsidiary, according to the Company’s August 8, 2011, Form 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the quarter ended June 30,…
Trial on remaining issues with respect to the enforcement of a settlement agreement that a Reynolds American Inc. subsidiary entered into with the Attorney General of the state of Vermont is set for October 3, 2011, according to the Company’s…
Reynolds American Inc. is awaiting a court decision on its and other plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction in a lawsuit brought against the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, according to the Company’s August 8, 2011, Form 10-Q filing with the U.S.…
Reynolds American Inc. is awaiting a court decision on its and other plaintiffs’ appeal from the District Court’s order granting summary judgment, according to the Company’s August 8, 2011, Form 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for…
Reynolds American Inc. remains a defendant in five health-care reimbursement cases abroad, according to the Company’s August 8, 2011, Form 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the quarter ended June 30, 2011.
Five health-care reimbursement cases are…
Reynolds American Inc.’s subsidiaries continue to defend 2,588 lawsuits pending in Florida known as the Broin II cases, the Company disclosed in its August 8, 2011, Form 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the quarter ended…
Reynolds American Inc. is awaiting a court decision on defendants’ motion to dismiss its lawsuit, which challenges the composition of the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee that had been established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to the…
Reynolds American Inc. continues to defend a health-care cost recovery case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice. Other than certain governmental actions, these health-care cost recovery cases largely have been unsuccessful on remoteness grounds, which means that one who…