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<td width="88%"> </td>
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<td width="3%"> </td>
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<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" align="center" colspan="3"><b>Total Number of Cases</b></td>
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<td> </td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" align="center" colspan="3"><b>Pending against Lorillard as of</b></td>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" align="center" colspan="3" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><b>October 20, 2010</b></td>
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<div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Conventional Product Liability Cases
</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">35</td>
<td> </td>
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<tr valign="bottom">
<td>
<div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px"><i>Engle </i>Progeny Cases<sup style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(1)</sup>
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<td> </td>
<td align="right">7,586</td>
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<div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">West Virginia Individual Personal Injury Cases
</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">42</td>
<td> </td>
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<div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Flight Attendant Cases
</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">2,593</td>
<td> </td>
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<div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Class Action Cases
</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">6</td>
<td> </td>
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<div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Reimbursement Cases
</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">5</td>
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<div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Filter Cases
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<td> </td>
<td align="right">34</td>
<td> </td>
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<div style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Tobacco-Related Antitrust Cases
</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td> </td>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"><sup style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(1)</sup></td>
<td> </td>
<td>In November 2009, one Florida federal court entered orders that
severed the claims of approximately 4,400 <i>Engle </i>Progeny plaintiffs, initially
asserted in a small number of multi-plaintiff actions, into separate lawsuits.</td>
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