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NATIONAL ASBES. WORKERS MED. FUND v. PHILIP MORRIS, INC.

Nos. 98 CV 1492, 98 CV 3287.

74 F.Supp.2d 221 (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.

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

September 7, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Dewey Ballantine LLP, by Paul J. Bschorr, Vincent R. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Michael C. Hefter, Heather K. McDevitt, Robert J. Morrow, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs Blue Cross & Blue Shield of N.J., Inc., et al.

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz by Herbert M. Wachtell, Steven M. Barna, Michael A. Charish, Peter C. Hein, New York, NY, Winston & Strawn, by Jeffrey M. Wagner, Chicago, IL, for Defendant Philip Morris, Incorporated.

Kirkland & Ellis by Marjorie Press Lindblom, New York, NY, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold by David M. Covey, New York, NY, for Defendant Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation.

Greenberg Traurig, LLP by Alan Mansfield, New York, NY, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., by Gary R. Long, Kansas City, MO, for Defendants Lorillard Tobacco Company, Lorillard, Inc., and Loews Corp.

Debevoise & Plimpton by Harry Zirlin, Anne E. Cohen, New York, NY, for Defendant Council for Tobacco Research, U.S.A., Inc.

Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan, LLP by David R. Crittenden, New York, NY, for Defendant Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc.

Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin by Peter J. Busch, San Francisco, CA, Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, LLP, by Alan E. Kraus, Morristown, NJ, for Defendants R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., and RJR Nabisco, Inc.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, by Joseph M. McLaughlin, Michael P. Panagrossi, New York, NY, for Defendant British American Tobacco (investments) limited (formerly known as British-American Tobacco Company Limited).

Davis & Gilbert, LLP, by Bruce M. Ginsberg, Marc J. Rachman, New York, NY, for Defendant Hill & Knowlton, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WEINSTEIN, Senior District Judge.

                        TABLE OF CONTENTS

  I. INTRODUCTION......................................................223


 II. FACTS ..........................................................223
     A. Plaintiffs' Original Claims .................................223
     B. Procedural Background ................................

                    
                    
                    

                        

                            

                                
                            

                            

                                

                                    
    
                                        
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