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Jump to full article: Bloomberg News, 1999-11-16
Intro: The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's decision to throw out the suit against the funds, finding the supposed harm suffered by the plaintiffs was too removed from the tobacco companies' alleged wrongdoing to permit an award.
The decision also reversed another lower court ruling that had allowed the Blue Cross insurers' claims to go forward.
``The problem for both the Funds and the Blues is not that they deal with smokers rather than with providers of medical care but that they do not deal with tobacco producers, the supposed wrongdoers,'' Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote in the opinion. . . Plaintiffs in the case decided by the 7th Circuit included the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 734 Health and Welfare Trust Fund; Central States Joint Board Health and Welfare Trust Fund; and Blue Cross & Blue Shield associations of Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and North Dakota.
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