Attorney General’s Tobacco Enforcement Unit awarded $30 million in settlement payments from tobacco companies
BALTIMORE, MD—Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced this week that a panel of arbitrators unanimously found in favor of Maryland (PDF) and against Philip Morris USA, the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and two dozen other tobacco companies, resulting in the state’s recovery of more than $30 million in withheld settlement funds. The disputed payments were owed to the state […]
