Florida smokers brace for first class action in Miami trial
With a national tobacco deal dead, focus shifts to a July 6 trial in Miami for a Florida class action by up to 500,000 smokers led by Dr. Howard Engle. The case follows Florida's $11 billion illness costs settlement and a rising line of tobacco-liability verdicts, including a landmark punitive damages award in a smoking case.
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Mentally ill Yale-educated lawyer suspected in lover's death
Michael Laudor, 35, a Yale University and Yale Law School graduate with schizophrenia, surrendered to Hastings-on-Hudson police after his girlfriend Caroline Costello, also a lawyer, was found dead in their apartment. He had been seen driving away earlier. detectives said he is a suspect with no other person sought.
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Westchester Consumer Empowerment Center
New York State Psychiatric Center
White Plains
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Amtrak hits tractor-trailer. driver dies in Durham crash
An Amtrak Carolinian struck a tractor-trailer at a downtown Durham crossing, killing the truck driver John Allen Wilkerson, 39, of South Boston. Ten passengers were injured. one man and eight children treated and released, a woman hospitalized with chest pains. The seven-car train from Charlotte to New York carried about 240 passengers. investigators will review on board data to determine causes.
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