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Court mediator proposes $23.6 billion settlement by Philip Morris, BAT and JTI units in Canada

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(Reuters) – Philip Morris said on Friday that a Canadian court-appointed mediator has proposed a plan to end the tobacco litigation, involving a payment of C$32.5 billion ($23.56 billion) by its unit Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc and the Canadian units of British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco.

Philip Morris said the allocation of the aggregate settlement amount between the companies in the proceedings remained unresolved.

($1 = 1.3792 Canadian dollars)

(Reporting by Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala)

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