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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedRJR victorious in N.Y. health-care case.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company)(Brief Article)
Tobacco Retailer, December, 2004
The highest court in New York ruled in October that health-care insurance companies cannot legally sue tobacco companies for deceptive practices and recover damages for the health care costs of the people they cover.
The New York Court of Appeals ruled that the state's largest medical insurer, Empire Health Choice, formerly known as Blue Cross-Blue Shield, cannot use a state consumer protection law to pursue direct claims for the recovery of medical expenses from cigarette makers.
"This decision continues the long line of decisions that have held that insurance companies and other medical insurers have no standing to file such cases," said Martin L. Holton III, vice president and assistant general counsel for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company,...
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