Legal Opinion
Sarro v. Philip Morris USA Inc.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided March 7, 2012No. C.A. No. 08-10224-MLWPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
WOLF, District Judge.
I. SUMMARY
On December 24, 2004, Linda Rivers (“Rivers”), who lived alone, died in a fire at her home in Revere, Massachusetts. Rivers co-owned her home with her cousin, Rosalie Sarro (“Sarro”), the administratrix of Rivers’s estate and the plaintiff in this case.
On December 20, 2007, Sarro filed a complaint in Essex Superior Court against Philip Morris USA, Inc. (“Philip Morris”), alleging that Philip Morris’s defective design and manufacture of cigarettes caused the fire in which Rivers died. Philip Morris timely removed the case to this court…
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