2 Tobacco Companies Object To Report Recommending Remand

(March 15, 2016, 10:10 AM EDT) -- TAMPA, Fla. — Two tobacco companies on March 1 filed an objection to a federal magistrate judge in Florida’s report recommending that five Engle progeny cases be remanded to state court (Hollie Lenoir v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al., No. 8:15-cv-02493-JDW-EAJ; Lewis Mosley v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al., No. 8:15-cv-02494-JDW-MAP; Diane Zupo v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al., No. 8:15-cv-02495-SDM-MAP; Douglas Stalley v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al., No. 8:15-cv-02496-EAK-TBM; Linda Abbey v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al., No. 8:15-cv-02497-SCB-TGW. M.D. Fla.)....