Panel Vacates Defense Verdict On Smoker’s Son’s Breach Of Warranty Claim

Mealey's ( April 11, 2022, 8:55 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts appellate panel on April 8 vacated a trial court’s entry of judgment in favor of two tobacco companies on deceased smoker’s son’s breach of warranty claim after finding that the trial court gave a prejudicial jury instruction regarding the plaintiff’s argument that safer alternative cigarette designs existed when his father became addicted to nicotine in the 1960s....