Nicolo v. Philip Morris, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that cancer “does not lend itself to lay identification,” but that “symptoms indicative of cancer” along with other information about the disease may mean that a plaintiff reasonably should know she had the disease
• reviewing and then applying Rhode Island’s approach to the discovery rule
• “Unlike impairments to breathing, cancer does not lend itself to lay identification. It is most dependent upon medical diagnosis”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).