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    From: PARAGON07 <r...@n...o2.pl>
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    Subject: Re: Odszkodowanie od Philip Morris
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    the creator <c...@a...net> wrote in news:unXTf.2909$yo1.1797@trndny09:

    > Wczoraj Sad Najwyzszy USA odmowil rozpatrzenia apelacji Philip Morris
    > od wyroku Sad Najwyzszego Kalifornii w sprawie spowodowania raka pluc
    > Richarda Boekena. Oznacza to ze pozostaje w mocy wyrok nakazujacy
    > wyplacenie odszkodowania.
    >
    > Piec lat temu lawa wybrana przez Philip Morris wydala wyrok nakazujacy
    > zaplacenie pol miliona dolarow odszkodowania ofiarze raka pluc oraz
    > dodadkowo nawiazke w wysokosci 3 miliardow dolarow. Sedzia zredukowal
    > nawiazke do 100 milionow a sad apelacyjny do 50 milionow.
    > Philip Morris musi teraz wyplacic zasadzona kwote plus odsetki
    > wynoszace
    > polowe tek kwoty. Dodatkowo, koszta adwokata.
    >
    > Richard Boeken nie zobaczy ani centa z tych pieniedzy. Zmarl wkrotce
    > po pierwszym wyroku.
    >
    > http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/05-600.htm
    >
    >
    > Dzisiejszy The Los Angeles Times:
    >
    > Widow's Legal Battle With Philip Morris Ends
    > By Myron Levin, Times Staff Writer
    > March 21, 2006
    >
    > Five years after a landmark defeat in a Los Angeles courtroom, tobacco
    > giant Philip Morris USA has exhausted its appeals and will have to pay
    > record damages of more than $82 million to the widow of a longtime
    > smoker of its Marlboro cigarettes.
    >
    > Without comment, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a
    > 2001 verdict in the case filed by Richard Boeken of Topanga. Boeken,
    > who began smoking in his teens, died of cancer at 57, shortly after
    > the verdict in the first suit by an individual smoker ever tried in
    > Los Angeles.
    >
    > ADVERTISEMENT
    > Although cigarette makers have agreed to some major settlements,
    > including $246 billion to end lawsuits by the states, in more than 50
    > years of litigation, they have had to write checks to only a handful
    > of individual smokers.
    >
    > The Boeken award — consisting of $5.54 million in compensatory
    > damages, $50 million in punitive damages and more than $26 million in
    > interest — will be the largest recovery by an individual to date.
    >
    > It will eclipse the previous record payment of $16.7 million last year
    > to a former smoker from Glendale. Philip Morris, a unit of Altria
    > Group Inc. and the top U.S. cigarette maker, lost that case too.
    >
    > Boeken's widow, Judy Boeken, could not be reached for comment. But her
    > lawyer, Michael Piuze of Los Angeles, said she "is happy that the
    > litigation's over."
    >
    > Ed Sweda, senior attorney for the Boston-based Tobacco Products
    > Liability Project, which encourages lawsuits against the tobacco
    > industry, said the Supreme Court's decision not to accept the appeal
    > "demonstrates that tobacco litigation remains a viable — and still
    > emerging — strategy to promote the public health."
    >
    > Still, the award is a wisp of its original self. Outraged jurors in
    > Los Angeles County Superior Court had ordered Philip Morris to pay
    > Boeken $3 billion in addition to compensatory damages in June 2001
    > after finding the company guilty of fraud, negligence,
    > misrepresentation and selling a defective product.
    >
    > Weeks later, the trial judge sliced the punitive award to $100
    > million. A California appeals court then trimmed it to $50 million,
    > despite its finding that Philip Morris' conduct was "extremely
    > reprehensible."
    >
    > "The very conduct that injured Boeken was directed at all smokers in
    > the United States, repeated over many years with knowledge of the risk
    > to human life and health," and demonstrated "intentional deceit," the
    > state appeals court ruled last year.
    >
    > But the panel also cited a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that
    > punitive damages usually should not exceed nine times the compensatory
    > damages. That ratio was reflected in the state appeals court ruling.
    >
    > Piuze had argued that the ratio was a guideline, not a rule, and
    > should not protect a company that he said was responsible for millions
    > of deaths.
    >
    > Although the court's decision Monday was a victory for the plaintiff,
    > Piuze said he was not satisfied "with the end result, which is a
    > penalty of one half week of earnings" for Philip Morris.
    >
    > Steven Rissman, associate general counsel for Altria Corporate
    > Services Inc., another unit of Altria, said Monday that he was not
    > surprised the Supreme Court declined to review the case. "You can
    > never have the highest of expectations when you're talking about a
    > court that accepts less than 100 of the 7,000 petitions that it's
    > presented each year."
    >
    > Legal analysts believe that the court may be more likely to consider
    > an appeal of another verdict that went well beyond the 9-to-1
    > guideline.
    >
    > It's an Oregon case in which the $80-million award against Philip
    > Morris includes $79.5 million in punitive damages and $521,000 in
    > compensatory damages — a ratio of more than 152 to 1.
    >
    > The Oregon Supreme Court affirmed the verdict last month, setting the
    > stage for a last-ditch appeal to the nation's highest court.
    >
    > The Boeken verdict was among a string of four straight big defeats for
    > cigarette makers in Los Angeles and San Francisco superior courts.
    >
    > Rissman noted that since the last of these plaintiffs' victories in
    > 2002, Philip Morris has successfully defended five consecutive
    > individual smoker cases in California.
    >
    > Altria shares rose 4 cents Monday to $73.59.
    >

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