Tobacco companies to fight ruling forcing them to make initial $1-billion payout

montrealgazette.com – 8 de Julio de 2015 – Canadá
MONTREAL - The country's largest tobacco companies are set to return to court today to fight a ruling that they must pay out more than a billion dollars in settlement money in the coming weeks.

A Quebec judge ruled just more than a month ago that Imperial Tobacco, Rothmans, Benson & Hedges and JTI-Macdonald had to fork over $15.6 billion to smokers who either fell sick or couldn't quit the habit.

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