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...Chiles. He could hardly stop smiling after today's decision, and with good reason: The companies agreed to pay Florida $11.3 billion to settle the state's lawsuit to recover the costs of caring for sick smokers. After weeks of testimony that included the admission by Philip Morris CEO Geoffrey Bible that smoking "might" be responsible for as many as 100,000 deaths, Big Tobacco has packed up and left this state. Next stop: Washington, D.C., where the $368 billion national settlement remains to be renegotiated...
...Granted, it didn't come easy. But during a deposition for a lawsuit that is continuing despite the multi-billion dollar settlement, Florida attorney Ron Motley finally got what he was looking for. He asked Philip Morris CEO Geoffrey Bible if smoking had caused a single death over the past 30 years. "Might have," said Bible. How about 1,000? "Might have." And 100,000? "Might have...
DETROIT: We only knew the half of it. Assisted suicide Dr. Jack Kevorkian has quietly helped with dozens of deaths that never made the evening news, more than doubling his death toll to "nearly 100," according to his attorney, Geoffrey Feiger. Kevorkian previously had been known to have assisted with 46 suicides (or 54, depending on when you counted), the latest one this week. Apparently the additional four dozen or so suicides weren't interesting enough for the local press to dig into them...
...Susan M. Biancana, Geoffrey A. Fowler, Karen A. Medlin and Elizabeth S. Zuckerman contributed to the reporting of this story...
...company was its general counsel and a litigator at the New York law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell. Negotiated settlements were not unknown to him, and Moore had made it clear that the talks could not proceed without tobacco's top officers. Goldstone soon persuaded Philip Morris CEO Geoffrey Bible to have a sit-down with the opposition...