STANDISH-PARKIN v. LORILLARD TOBACCO COMPANY


12 A.D.3d 301 (2004)

786 N.Y.S.2d 13

SHELLEY STANDISH-PARKIN, Respondent, v. LORILLARD TOBACCO COMPANY et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

November 23, 2004.


Plaintiff seeks damages for the death of her decedent mother, who had started smoking cigarettes when she was a teenager or shortly thereafter, and quickly developed a 1½-pack-a-day addiction. After many years of smoking, decedent was diagnosed with lung cancer, to which she succumbed in 2000. Plaintiff alleges failure to warn of the addictive nature of smoking, fraud and deceit, negligent misrepresentation, negligent and defective design and production of cigarettes...

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