Examples of RJRT in a sentence
After various proceedings and appeals, the federal district court in October 2017 ordered RJRT and the other US tobacco company defendants to fund the publishing of compelled public statements in various US media outlets, including in newspapers, and on television, the companies’ websites and cigarette packaging.
US Tobacco LitigationGroup companies, notably RJRT (individually and as successor by merger to Lorillard Tobacco) and B&W as well as other leading cigarette manufacturers, are defendants in a number of product liability cases.
On 17 August 2006, the federal district court issued its Final Judgment and Remedial Order, which found certain defendants, including RJRT, B&W, Lorillard Tobacco and Investments, had violated RICO, but did not impose any direct financial penalties.
Pursuant to the terms of the 1999 sale of RJRT’s international tobacco business to Japan Tobacco Incorporated (“JTI”), JTI has agreed to indemnify RJRT for all liabilities and obligations (including litigation costs) arising in respect of the Canadian recoupment actions.
In other cases, tobacco companies, including RJRT, have denied that nicotine is in fact highly addictive, beyond just a psychological habit, and have until recently resisted evidence showing they have known for years about nicotine’s addictive properties.
RJRT has paid damages to plaintiffs in 8 cases that were not appealed that are now closed.
The science and marketing departments of RJRT were accordingly instructed to put together a panel of outside experts who would review, and evaluate all of the testing data and other information procured by, or available to Reynolds concerning the Eclipse cigarette.
SEPA submitted a report to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service in July 2020 for consideration of prosecution in relation to the flaring at the Mossmorran complex during April 2019 but as outlined in the introduction the circumstances surrounding this incident are outside the scope of this peer review and were not investigated by the review team.
As noted above, the Reynolds Scientific Advisory Board continued to meet periodically, and review updated, or new information from RJRT concerning Eclipse.
As of 31 December 2019, 135 individual cases were pending in the United States against RJRT, B&W and/or Lorillard Tobacco.