Thirteen years after the city of St. Louis and dozens of Missouri hospitals filed a king-size suit against the nation’s tobacco industry seeking repayment for the money they’d spent treating patients with smoking-related illnesses, a jury last month cleared the cigarette makers of liability.
“I’ve been doing this 30 years, and I’ve never been involved in a trial of that magnitude or length,” said R. Dal Burton, a Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice partner in Atlanta, who last month wrapped up a nearly four-month trial in St. Louis as the head of a team of lawyers representing R.J. Reynolds, one of six tobacco companies that beat back the long-running health care cost recovery suit seeking more than $455 million in actual and punitive damages.
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