Mealey's (December 10, 2018, 10:42 AM EST) -- LAKELAND, Fla. — In a Dec. 7 holding, Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal turned away claims by Philip Morris USA Inc. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. that a plaintiff downplayed a five-year romantic relationship that ended abruptly just before his trial in an Engle progeny case over his late wife’s death from lung cancer (Philip Morris USA Inc, et al. v. John Brown, No. 2D17-3877, Fla. Dist., 2nd App., 2018 Fla. App. LEXIS 17548)....