NATIONAL ASBESTOS WORKERS MEDICAL v. PHILIP MORRIS, INC.

Nos. 98 CV 1492, 98 CV 3287, 97 CV 7658.

71 F.Supp.2d 139 (1999)

The NATIONAL ASBESTOS WORKERS MEDICAL FUND, et al., Plaintiffs, v. PHILIP MORRIS, INC., et al., Defendants. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey, Inc., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Philip Morris, Incorporated, et al., Defendants. H.K. Porter Company, Inc., Plaintiff, v. The American Tobacco Company, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

November 1, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos, P.C., Baltimore, MD, by E. David Hoskins, David L. Palmer, Kenneth D. Pack, O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue, Washington, D.C., by Sally M. Tedrow, Louis P. Malone, Donald J. Capuano, for plaintiffs The National Asbestos Workers Medical Fund, et al.

Dewey Ballantine LLP, New York City, by Paul J. Bschorr, Vincent R. FitzPatrick, Jr., Jack E. Pace III, Paul B. Carberry, Robert J. Morrow, Dewey Ballantine LLP, Washington, DC, by Martha J. Talley, for plaintiffs Blue Cross, et al.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York City, by James L. Stengel, Kazan, McClain, Edises, Simon & Abrams, Oakland, CA, by Steven L. Kazan, for plaintiff H.K. Porter Company.

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (in National Asbestos and Blue Cross), New York City, by Herbert M. Wachtell, Steven M. Barna, Kenneth B. Forrest, Barbara Robbins, Peter C. Hein, Arnold & Porter (in National Asbestos and Blue Cross), Washington, DC, by Murray R. Garnick, Winston & Strawn (in National Asbestos), Chicago, IL, by Dan K. Webb, Phillips, Lytle, Hitchcock, Blaine & Huber LLP, Buffalo, NY, by Paul F. Stecker, (in National Asbestos), Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold (in Blue Cross), San Francisco, CA, by Kevin J. Dunne, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold (in Blue Cross), New York City, by James T. Conlon, for defendant Philip Morris, Incorporated.

Kirkland & Ellis (in National Asbestos), New York City, by Marjorie Press Lindblom, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, New York City, by David M. Covey, Kirland & Ellis, Washington, DC, by Kenneth N. Bass, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin (in Blue Cross), San Francisco, CA, by Peter J. Busch, for defendant Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation.

Greenberg Traurig, LLP (in National Asbestos and Blue Cross), New York City, by Alan Mansfield, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP (in National Asbestos and Blue Cross), Kansas City, MO, by Gary R. Long, for defendants Lorillard Tobacco Company, Lorillard, Inc.

Debevoise & Plimpton (in National Asbestos and Blue Cross), New York City, by Steven Klugman, for defendant Council for Tobacco Research, U.S.A., Inc.

Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan, LLP (in National Asbestos and Blue Cross), New York City, by Barry S. Schaevitz, for defendant Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc.

Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin (in Blue Cross), San Francisco, CA, by Peter J. Busch, Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, LLP (in National Asbestos), Morristown, NJ, by Alan E. Kraus, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC (in National Asbestos), Winston-Salem, NC, by Thomas D. Schroeder, for defendants R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., and RJR Nabisco, Inc.

Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York City, by Thomas J. McCormack, (in Blue Cross), Donald Strauber, (in National Asbestos), for defendant British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited (formerly known as British-American Tobacco Company Limited).

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (in National Asbestos and Blue Cross), New York City, by Joseph McLaughlin, for defendant BAT Industries P.L.C.

Davis & Gilbert, LLP (in National Asbestos and Blue Cross), New York City, by Bruce M. Ginsberg, for defendant Hill & Knowlton, Inc.

Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP (in National Asbestos and Blue Cross), New York City, by Michael M. Fay, for defendants Liggest Group Inc., Liggest & Myers, Inc., and Brooke Group Ltd.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP (in Blue Cross), New York City, by Peter J. McKenna, for defendant United States Tobacco Company.

Seward & Kissel, New York City, by Anthony R. Mansfield, for defendant The Tobacco Institute, Inc.

Greenberg Traurig, New York City, by Alan Mansfield, Stephen L. Saxl, for defendants Lorilard Tobacco Company, Philip Morris Incorporated, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Council for Tobacco Research-USA, Inc. in H.K. Porter.

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Kansas City, MO, by Gary R. Long, Gay Tedder, Andrew D. Carpenter, Bracewell & Patterson, LLP, Houston, TX, for defendants Lorillard Tobacco Company and Philip Morris Incorporated in H.K. Porter.

Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti, Morristown, NJ, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice PLLC, Winston-Salem, NC, for defendant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in H.K. Porter.

Kirkland & Ellis, New York City, by Marjorie P. Lindblom, Peter Bellacosa, for defendant Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp (individually and as successor by merger to The American Tobacco Company) in H.K. Porter.

Seward & Kissel LLP, New York City, by Donovan Wickline, for defendant The Tobacco Institute, Inc. in H.K. Porter.


MEMORANDUM

WEINSTEIN, Senior District Judge.

                         TABLE OF CONTENTS

  I FACTS ........................................................... 143
    A. Blues ........................................................ 143
    B. National Asbestos ............................................ 143
    C. H.K. Porter .................................................. 144

 II PROCEDURE .....................

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