Opinion ID: 769987
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Proximate Injury

Text: 61 Even if Glassner could establish that his decedent justifiably relied on Defendants' alleged misrepresentations and concealment of its extra knowledge concerning the dangers of cigarette smoking, he has pled no facts to support a finding of a resulting injury proximately caused by the reliance. See Burr, 491 N.E.2d at 1105. Glassner's fraud claims, unlike his OPLA claims, are based on Defendants'misrepresentations and concealment not of information concerning the general health risks associated with smoking, i.e., those risks that are common knowledge, but of information beyond the common knowledge of the ordinary person, i.e., the manipulation of nicotine levels in cigarettes. Thus, Glassner must plead facts sufficient to support a finding that his decedent was injured not merely by one of those smoking-related diseases commonly known to the ordinary person, but as a proximate result of her reliance on Defendants' misrepresentations and concealment of information beyond the common knowledge of the ordinary person. He has failed to do so.