United States Sixth Circuit

Health insurance subscribers who allege that an insurer has passed along to them increased costs of treating smoking-related injuries, in the form of higher insurance premiums, cannot show that they have been proximately injured by defendant tobacco companies' conduct.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/08/2003
• Published 04/08/2003

Judges

• Before SILER, DAUGHTREY, and COLE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gordon Ball (argued and briefed), Knoxville, TN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Barry Goheen (briefed), King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA, Marcia M. Eason (briefed), Miller & Martin, Chattanooga, TN, John W. Wheeler (briefed), Hodges, Doughty & Carson, Knoxville, TN, Jerome R. Doak (briefed), Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, Dallas, TX, Patricia H. Moskal, Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, Nashville, TN, Mary E. McGarry, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York, NY, William E. Godbold III (briefed), Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan, Chattanooga, TN, William S. Lockett, Jr. (briefed), Rebecca B. Murray (briefed), Kennerly, Montgomery & Finley, Knoxville, TN, Thomas H. Peebles III (briefed), Kara E. Shea, Mark T. Seitz, Miller & Martin, Nashville, TN, Robert G. McDowell (briefed), Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell, Nashville, TN, John A. Lucas (briefed), Hunton & Williams, Knoxville, TN, Murray R. Garnick (argued and briefed), Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, David S. Eggert (briefed), Heather A. Pigman (briefed), Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.