Altria Tells Jury It Didn’t Benefit From Juul’s Marketing to Young Users
Altria Group Inc. didn't benefit from its $12.8 billion investment in Juul Labs Inc., the tobacco giant's lawyers told a jury in a trial over whether it helped the ...
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Juul Settlement to End Youth-Vaping Lawsuits Gets Initial Approval
Juul Labs Inc. won preliminary approval of a settlement aimed at resolving thousands of lawsuits targeting the e-cigarette maker as a major cause of a U.S. youth-vaping epidemic. U.S. District Judge ...
Juul Agrees to Pay $1.2 Billion in Youth-Vaping Settlement
Juul Labs Inc. has agreed to pay $1.2 billion to resolve about 10,000 lawsuits targeting the e-cigarette maker as a major cause of a U.S. youth-vaping epidemic, according ...
Juul Reaches $439 Million Settlement Over Marketing to Children
Juul Labs Inc. reached an agreement in principle to pay $438.5 million to 33 states to resolve a two-year bipartisan probe into the e-cigarette manufacturer's marketing and sales practices, ...
Juul Can’t Escape Trial in Youth Vaping Marketing Suits
Juul Labs Inc. failed to block the first trial set in a flurry of more than 2,500 personal injury cases accusing the e-cigarette maker of deliberately targeting minors in marketing its vaping ...
Researchers Worry That ‘Whiteness’ of AI Erases People of Color: Risk Alerts
Researchers from the University of Cambridge are worried that the "overwhelming whiteness" of artificial intelligence may remove people of color from humanity's vision of the future. Teens and young ...
Kingdollar Comments: Emerging Risk Issues Left Out of Algorithms
Emerging issues occur far more frequently than "black swans" and include more than just "casualty catastrophes." Still, such issues have, and will continue to, cost the property/casualty insurance ...
What Do Power Outages, Wildfires and Vaping Bans Have in Common?
Power outages, wildfires and vaping bans do not appear similar at all, but in the rush to protect consumers and constituents from harm, companies and state legislators may be creating an entirely ...
Vaping Targeted by a Number of U.S. Lawsuits
Several deaths and potentially hundreds of illnesses have been tied to e-cigarettes, which allow users to inhale nicotine vapor, often flavored, without smoking. Lawsuits have been filed against ...