A 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Friday that two New York union health funds and four public employees' health plans can't proceed with class action suits against major tobacco companies. The panel said in Laborers Local 17 Health and Benefit Fund v. Philip Morris Inc. that the economic damages allegedly suffered by the plaintiffs were too remote to be actionable. Last month, the 3rd Circuit upheld the dismissal of a similar labor fund class action in Pennsylvania.
April 12, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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Handing a crucial victory to the tobacco industry, a Manhattan federal appeals panel ruled Friday that two New York union health funds and four public employees health plans cannot proceed with class action suits against major tobacco companies.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said that the economic damages allegedly suffered by the plaintiffs, who claimed that they should be repaid for benefits paid to injured smokers, were too remote to be actionable.
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