Jones Day and Shook Hardy Bacon teamed up for a hard-fought victory in Frazier v. Philip Morris.
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"They knew that nearly all cigarette smokers are addicted,"
Philip Gerson, of Gerson & Schwartz, told the jury in Frazier v. Philip Morris closing arguments. Eighty to 90% of smokers are addicted, he said. "But they so stubbornly deny the fact that Phyllis was addicted that we had to spend so much of your time bringing in expert witnesses" to describe the biology and pharmacology of addiction, such as Dr. Neal Benowitz, who had written a hundreds of peer reviewed articles and book chapters on nicotine addiction.
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Tobacco extended its Engle-progeny winning streak to three-in-a-row (Budnick, Warrick, and Willis) with a defense verdict today in Willis v. R.J. Reynolds.
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Plaintiff attorney Bruce Denson told the jury in Rohr v. R.J. Reynolds that Arthur Rohr smoked a pack a day for 50 years, adding, "No one smokes for 50 years who isn't to some degree addicted."
All the records agreed, said Mr. Denson, that Mr. Rohr died of metastatic lung cancer, which is caused by smoking. Although Mr. Rohr had a small skin cancer, the medical records indicated that the skin cancer apparently had not spread.
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Engle-progeny tobacco defendants R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris extended their recent winning streak with a defense verdict today in Warrick v. R.J. Reynolds.
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