As the U.S. cigarette market dips, the nation's second-largest tobacco company, Reynolds American, announced Tuesday that it plans to buy the third-largest one, Lorillard, for about $27.4 billion ...

North Carolina’s Lorillard Tobacco, for instance, gave nearly four times as much cash to Republican candidates during the 2014 congressional election cycle. But the company made a striking ...

An independent Lorillard could take on debt to pursue ... Reynolds American Inc., the nation’s second-largest tobacco company, bought smokeless tobacco company Conwood Co. in 2006 and has ...

Usually, the nation’s third-largest tobacco company can smoke through a small- business owner’s resources in court. But this time, Lorillard has met its match. Last week, for the second time ...

A jury found Wednesday that Lorillard Tobacco Co.’s cigarettes contributed to the death of a Palos Verdes Estates man, but the amount the company must pay to his widow was not immediately clear.

Lorillard attorney Walter Cofer acknowledged that the company gave away free cigarette samples -- a common practice by tobacco companies from the 1950s through the 1980s -- but said Lorillard did ...

Andy” Tisch, chairman and chief executive of Lorillard Tobacco, a Manhattan-based company that also sells Newport, Kent and True. Lorillard, which has about 8 percent of the overall domestic ...

The nation's third-biggest tobacco company said revenue excluding excise taxes increased more than 9 percent to $1.02 billion. Analysts expected Lorillard to earn $1.68 per share on revenue of $ ...