Malpractice Settlement Doesn’t Preclude Engle Claims, Smoker’s Widow Says

(May 9, 2024, 12:44 PM EDT) -- MIAMI — A smoker’s widow in a May 8 appellant brief to the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal says a trial court wrongly granted summary judgment on her case against a tobacco company for causing her husband’s lung cancer and death based on the court’s conclusion that the husband’s settlement of a medical malpractice suit against his cancer doctor released all claims relating to his cancer against all parties....