The account will be going into review.
It is often difficult for an agency to keep an account once it has gone into review.
Fifteen days after the case went into independent review, Ms. Cisneros prevailed.
The agency resigned the business last year when the client put its account into review.
Then, in October, it will go into intergovernmental review, in which each member state has the right to demand changes.
Displeased with the advertising's poor results, Philip Morris had put the account quietly into review a number of times over the last few years.
The account was put into review after Mr. Simpson joined the company in November.
In June 2011, research company Democratic Audit published findings into review of potential constituency changes.
Last week Subaru, the agency's biggest client, said it was putting its $60 million account into review.
If the e-mail address is nonexistent, the verification would bounce and the claim could be put into manual review for legitimacy.