EXHIBIT 99.3
TRIAL SCHEDULE FOR CERTAIN CASES
Set forth below is a list of smoking and health class actions, health care cost
recovery actions, Proposition 65 actions and asbestos contribution actions
currently scheduled for trial through 2000 against PM Inc. and, in some cases,
the Company. Trial dates, however, are subject to change.
Case Type of Action Trial Date
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Engle, et al. v. R.J. Reynolds Smoking and Health Class Action In Progress
Tobacco Co., et al.
Clay, et al. v. The American Smoking and Health Class Action August 1999
Tobacco Company, Inc., et al. Specific Date to be Set
Northwest Laborers-Employers Health Care Cost Recovery Action September 7, 1999
Health and Security Trust Fund,
et al. v. Philip Morris, Inc.,
et al.
Robert A. Falise, et al. v. The Asbestos Contribution Action November 18, 1999
American Tobacco Company, et al.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Health Care Cost Recovery Action January 10, 2000
Jersey, Inc., et al. v. Philip
Morris, Incorporated, et al.
Richardson, et al. v. Philip Smoking and Health Class Action February 4, 2000
Morris Incorporated, et al.
Thomas and Owens Corning v. R.J. Asbestos Contribution Action February 14, 2000
Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al.
Case Type of Action Trial Date
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Group Health Plan, et al. v. Health Care Cost Recovery Action March 1, 2000
Philip Morris, Inc., et al.
Thompson, et al. v. American Smoking and Health Class Action March 1, 2000
Tobacco Company, Inc., et al.
West Virginia--Ohio Valley Area Health Care Cost Recovery March 7, 2000
International Brotherhood of Action
Electrical Workers Welfare Fund
v. The American Tobacco Company,
et al.
National Asbestos Workers Medical Health Care Cost Recovery Action April 5, 2000
Fund, et al. v. Philip Morris
Incorporated, et al.
International Union of Operating Health Care Cost Recovery June 6, 2000
Engineers Local 132 v. Philip Action
Morris, Inc., et al.
In re TOBACCO II Health Care Cost Recovery June 19, 2000
Action (26 consolidated
union cases)
Below is a schedule setting forth by month the number of individual smoking and
health cases against PM Inc. that are currently scheduled for trial through the
end of the year 2000.
1999 2000
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May (1, in progress) January (1)
September (1) April (1)
October (2) May (1)
July (1)
September (1)
November (1)