Victory in Engle Progeny Case
October 25, 2010Beck Redden's Kat Gallagher and Jon Stern from Arnold & Porter's DC office teamed up to secure victory for a major tobacco company in an Engle progeny case in which the plaintiff claimed her bladder cancer and emphysema were the result of decades of smoking. The so-called Engle progeny cases followed a 2006 Florida Supreme Court decision that decertified a class action but allowed former class members to file individual lawsuits and potentially rely on general liability and causation findings from the first class action.