Mealey's (September 27, 2017, 1:26 PM EDT) -- NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A federal judge in Connecticut on Sept. 25 denied a tobacco company’s motion seeking an order that a plaintiff’s claims regarding negligence before 1992 be barred because the plaintiff’s claims fall within the “useful safe life” exception of Connecticut’s statute of repose (Vincent J. Bifolck v. Philip Morris Inc., No. 3:06-cv-1768, D. Conn., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 156172)....