Yates has led four cases for Philip Morris USA Inc. in the last three years, and recently won a major victory when she convinced an eight-person jury that the plaintiff's cancer did not bear any of the hallmarks of cases traditionally linked to smoking.
It took the jury less than an hour to return a verdict that there was not sufficient evidence to attribute medical causation of the cancer to cigarette smoke. Pooshs v. Philip Morris USA Inc. ...
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