Milton Horowitz; Won Suit Against Tobacco Firm

Milton J. Horowitz, 72, a clinical psychologist and former smoker who won $2 million from a tobacco company. Horowitz died of mesothelioma just six months after a San Franciso jury ordered Lorillard Tobacco Co. to pay him $1.3 million in compensatory damages and $700,000 in punitive damages. Horowitz claimed that he contracted his disease from smoking Lorillard’s Kent Micronite filter cigarettes in the 1950s. Lorillard has appealed the verdict. A native of Brooklyn, Horowitz was educated at City College of New York and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kan. In 1952 he became chief psychologist at the University Hospital of Western Reserve in Cleveland, and in 1964 he moved to Los Angeles as director of professional education at the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center. He moved into private practice five years later and in 1973 was a founding member of the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, which he served as president. On Sunday in Beverly Hills.