United States Second Circuit

In an action by insurers alleging injury due to tobacco companies' deception of public as to the negative health consequences of smoking, plaintiff's subrogation claim is reversed. Questions regarding New York health insurance law are certified to the New York Court of Appeals.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/16/2003
• Published 09/17/2003

Judges

• F.I.PARKER, Circuit Judge.**, Before:  VAN GRAAFEILAND, CABRANES, and F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Murray R. Garnick,Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C. (Ursula Henniger, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, Winston-Salem, North Carolina;  John B. Williams, Collier, Shannon & Scott LLP, Washington, D.C.;   Kimberly S. Penner, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, New York, New York;  William Allinder, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Kansas City, Missouri;  Alan Mansfield and Stephen Saxl, Greenberg Traurig, New York, New York, on brief), for Appellants Philip Morris, Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Lorillard Tobacco Company, Liggett Group, Inc., Leonard A. Feiwus, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP, New York, New York, on submission for Appellants Liggett Group, Inc, and Liggett Myers, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul J. Bschorr (Joseph Angland and Kathleen M. Kacsor, on brief), Dewey Ballantine LLP, New York, New York, for Appellee.