Loews (nyse: LTR - news - people ) unit Lorillard Tobacco alleged double-dipping in a contentious lawsuit in Ohio's Cayahoga County, in which mesothelioma victim Harry Kananian obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars from bankruptcy trusts by submitting claims with false details, such as describing himself as a shipyard worker when he merely passed through a shipyard on his way to Japan in World War II.
Forbes magazine disclosed internal e-mails from the law firms involved in the case detailing how the firms submitted revised filings, years after Kananian died, correcting what lawyers called "clerical errors." In the lawsuit against Lorillard, Kananian's lawyers say he actually got sick from smoking Kent cigarettes that were sold with asbestos-containing filters for a few years in the early 1950s. The judge in that case, Harry Hanna, has since imposed a gag order on everyone involved, citing the risk of endangering a fair trial.
Kent in Cleveland
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