Legal Opinion
Evans v. Lorillard Tobacco Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 11, 2013PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGants, J.
Marie R. Evans (Marie) died in 2002, at the age of *415fifty-four, from small cell lung cancer caused by smoking cigarettes. A jury found that the defendant, Lorillard Tobacco Company (Lorillard), the designer and manufacturer of Newport brand cigarettes, caused her wrongful death based on various theories of liability: breach of the implied warranty of merchantability because of design defect and inadequate warning of Newport cigarettes’ health hazards and addictive properties; negligence in the design, marketing, or distribution of Newport cigarettes; negligent distribution by giving free…
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