Tobacco Firms Deny Settlement Talks
From Times Wire Reports
The nation’s biggest tobacco companies denied a press report that they had proposed talks to settle a $14-billion Medicaid lawsuit filed against the industry by Texas. The Dallas Morning News reported Saturday that national industry attorneys had approached state officials and talks were in the “infancy stage.” But Dan Webb, the tobacco companies’ lead attorney in the Texas case, denied the reports and said the industry was intent on going to trial.
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