Category: punitive damages

JURY VERDICT | Jury awards $29.1 MILLION to widow in tobacco case | BROWARD COUNTY

trippfirm / Posted on May 21, 2010 /

BROWARD COUNTY – Accoring to the Bloomberg News (5/20, Van Voris) reported, “R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. must pay $29.1 million to Connie Buonomo, the widow of a Florida man who started smoking at age 13 and died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2008, a jury in Fort Lauderdale said. The unanimous verdict today by…

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FLORIDA JURY AWARDS $30 million in smoker’s death

trippfirm / Posted on March 25, 2010 /

BROWARD COUNTY – A Broward County jury awarded $20 million in punitive damages to the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer. The six-person jury found that Philip Morris USA and R.J. Reynolds each shared a third of the responsibility for 68 year old smoker’s 1994 death and the smoker shared a…

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