Florida Appeals Panel Remands Tobacco Suit With Order To Reduce Damages

(January 5, 2017, 2:55 PM EST) -- FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida appellate panel on Jan. 4 found that a trial court erred in not reducing the compensatory award by the comparative fault the jury found in an Engle progeny suit brought by a man whose wife died from lung cancer related to her smoking (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Jan Grossman, No. 4D13-3949, Fla. App., 4th Dist.; 2017 Fla. App. LEXIS 50)....

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