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Judge Orders Start of Talks to End Major Tobacco Litigation in U.S.
The Wall Street Journal
April 19, 2000
A federal judge in New York ordered plaintiffs’ lawyers and tobacco companies to start sketching the framework for a global settlement to end in effect all major tobacco litigation in the nation. That settlement would include a class-action suit pending before the judge on behalf of all U.S. smokers with lung cancer.
Judge Weinstein, a force in crafting major settlements in mass-injury claims over asbestos and the herbicide Agent Orange, has six tobacco lawsuits pending before him. Aside from the class action, they include suits seeking billions of dollars in medical costs and smoking-linked personal-injury claims that are being sought by insurers, asbestos injury trust funds and health-benefit plans.