But the plan, which could lead to $2 billion in claims over the next 10 years, covers only a fraction of the defendant companies.

After that she shifted to brands of the other defendant companies.

Goebel himself was the most important witness of the defendant companies.

But it is a kind of final warning for a defendant company, strongly indicating where the commission is headed.

Insurance companies for the defendant companies are expected to pay for the human losses.

He took note of the extensive depositions sought by the defendant companies.

Virtually all the epidemiological studies back the position of the defendant companies that implants do not cause auto-immune disease in women.

In their responses, the 20 named defendant companies denied that any secret meetings occurred.

The class for the trial, with some exceptions, would be all current and former smokers of the defendant companies' cigarettes since April 1993.

The lawyers for some defendant companies insisted that they planned to stick to their guns.