Legal Issues

Lawsuit May Open Fresh Front in Tobacco Wars

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 6th, 1997

The lawyer who won a historic cash verdict against a cigarette maker filed a pioneering lawsuit to get tobacco companies to pay some of the billions of dollars already paid to sick asbestos workers, lawyers said.

"It's a new front for the tobacco industry," said Dick Daynard, Tobacco Products Liability Project.

Attorneys working with lawyer Norwood Wilner, Jacksonville, Florida, said a lawsuit on behalf of Raymark Industries against Philip Morris Cos. Inc. and other cigarette companies had been filed in Florida's Duval County Court and federal court in Atlanta, Georgia.

The lawsuit claims that Raymark, once a maker of asbestos...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-10-06)

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