1.   The tobacco industry has never paid damages or settled a liability case.

2.   Also checking to see how verdict might impact other liability cases.

3.   And colleagues say he may become the first attorney to win damages in a tobacco liability case.

4.   A Blue Springs woman flew to Washington this week to join the president as he vetoed legislation that would have limited damage claims in product liability cases.

5.   A hearing in a key tobacco liability case was postponed.

6.   But it was no ordinary product liability case.

7.   But some critics say the courts have used their lower standard of proof to encourage big verdicts in liability cases that are supported by little more than weak theories.

8.   Clinton has said he would approve of a measure setting some kind of national standards in product liability cases, as the Senate bill does.

9.   Cochran said the new firm would primarily handle standard personal injury cases, including medical malpractice and product liability cases.

10.   Consumers are filing fewer product liability cases than they have in years, but the fear of them is still strong.