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CIPOLLONE v. LIGGETT GROUP, INC.

Civ. A. No. 83-2864.

693 F.Supp. 208 (1988)

Antonio CIPOLLONE, individually and as executor of the Estate of Rose D. Cipollone, Plaintiff, v. LIGGETT GROUP, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

August 24, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Budd Larner Gross Picillo Rosenbaum Greenberg & Sade, Marc Z. Edell, Short Hills, N.J., Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, Alan M. Darnell, Woodbridge, N.J., for plaintiff.

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith, Ravin, Davis & Bergstein, Alan S. Naar, Woodbridge, N.J., Webster & Sheffield, James V. Kearney, New York City, for defendant Liggett Group, Inc.

Brown & Connery, Raymond F. Drozdowski, Westmont, N.J., for defendant Philip Morris Inc.

Stryker, Tams & Dill, William S. Tucker, Newark, N.J., for defendant Lorillard, Inc.

OPINION

SAROKIN, District Judge.

Plaintiff Antonio Cipollone brought this action against Liggett Group, Inc., Philip Morris Incorporated, and Lorillard, Inc., three companies which manufactured the cigarettes smoked by his wife, Rose Cipollone. Mrs. Cipollone died of lung cancer in 1983. Plaintiff sought damages personally and on behalf of his wife's estate. After trial, the jury, responding to specific interrogatories, returned the following verdict.

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