Product Liability Law 360 reports firm's success in California suit over asbestos cigarette filters
January 21, 2010
Product Liability Law 360 reports firm's success in California suit over asbestos cigarette filters. A California state jury found in favor of Hollingsworth & Vose Company, the company that made asbestos-containing filter media used by Lorillard Tobacco Company to make cigarette filters for Kent cigarettes for a brief period in the 1950s, in a case brought by Robert Cox. Mr. Cox claimed the cigarette filters that contained asbestos caused his mesothelioma.
Andrew McElaney and Eric Shor, members of the firm’s Product Liability Litigation practice group, represented Hollingsworth & Vose and argued that the cigarette filters did not release asbestos fibers and therefore did not cause asbestos-related disease; that it was reasonable to use asbestos in the filters during the 1950s because at the time asbestos-containing filters were considered the “state of the art” in high efficiency filters; and that Mr. Cox's disease was caused by his occupational exposure to numerous asbestos-containing products that did release asbestos fibers.
Product Liability Law 360 reports firm's success in California suit over asbestos cigarette filters. A California state jury found in favor of Hollingsworth & Vose Company, the company that made asbestos-containing filter media used by Lorillard Tobacco Company to make cigarette filters for Kent cigarettes for a brief period in the 1950s, in a case brought by Robert Cox. Mr. Cox claimed the cigarette filters that contained asbestos caused his mesothelioma.
Andrew McElaney and Eric Shor, members of the firm’s Product Liability Litigation practice group, represented Hollingsworth & Vose and argued that the cigarette filters did not release asbestos fibers and therefore did not cause asbestos-related disease; that it was reasonable to use asbestos in the filters during the 1950s because at the time asbestos-containing filters were considered the “state of the art” in high efficiency filters; and that Mr. Cox's disease was caused by his occupational exposure to numerous asbestos-containing products that did release asbestos fibers.
