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Insurance — must be driving an automobile to be entitled to PIP coverage
While employed in a managerial capacity by Van Hydraulics, Inc., the plaintiff used a company-owned pick-up truck insured by the defendant, Allstate Insurance Company.
Case Law Alert - 1st Qtr 2011
Big tobacco Engle progeny streak of recent wins ended with Webb.
Lenny Budnick was a musician who contracted lung cancer and emphysema and died at age 52. The jury concluded that Mr. Budnick smoked because he wanted to, not because he was addicted.
Case Law Alert - 1st Qtr 2011
Big tobacco Engle progeny streak of recent wins ended with Webb.
This case was originally tried in August to a jury that deadlocked.
Case Law Alert - 1st Qtr 2011
Big tobacco Engle progeny streak of recent wins ended with Webb.
The plaintiff spoke through a hole in his throat as a result of laryngeal cancer surgery and suffered from COPD and other types of cancer as well. The case was originally tried in May 2010, but a mistrial was declared.
Case Law Alert - 1st Qtr 2011
Big tobacco Engle progeny streak of recent wins ended with Webb.
Phyllis Frazier contracted COPD almost 20 years ago and required oxygen to breathe, despite undergoing a lung transplant.
Case Law Alert - 1st Qtr 2011
Big tobacco Engle progeny streak of recent wins ended with Webb.
Claudette Campbell was a smoker who survived bladder cancer, but a Tampa jury was unwilling to conclude that the bladder cancer resulted from an addiction to smoking.
Case Law Alert - 1st Qtr 2011
Big tobacco Engle progeny streak of recent wins ended with Webb.
Webb was brought by the daughter of deceased smoker James Kayce Horner. The decedent started smoking at age 17 in 1934 and smoked for more than 60 years until he died of lung cancer March 11, 1996, at age 78.
Case Law Alert - 1st Qtr 2011
Big tobacco Engle progeny streak of recent wins ended with Webb
During Phase 1 of the trial, plaintiff's attorney convinced the jury that an addiction to smoking was the legal cause of Mr. Rohr's lung cancer.
Case Law Alert - 1st Qtr 2011
Administrative law — suspension of osteopathic license upheld
John G. Costino, Jr., D.O.
Case Law Alert - 1st Qtr 2011
Insurance — false statement in application for car insurance
The plaintiff appealed from an order for summary judgment dismissing his claims for coverage by the defendant, Selective Insurance Company, for injuries suffered in a motor vehicle accident.
Case Law Alert - 1st Qtr 2011