June 21, 2011
A Florida federal judge on Monday threw out the complaint in a smoker's putative class action seeking medical monitoring for individuals who smoked allegedly defective Philip Morris USA Inc. cigarettes, but allowed the plaintiff to amend his claims.
November 10, 2010
A Miami man who puffed a pack of cigarettes a day for 20 years has hit Philip Morris USA Inc. with a putative defective design class action that seeks lung cancer scans for Florida residents over 50 who smoke or have smoked any of 33 kinds of Marlboro cigarettes but who haven’t been diagnosed with the disease.