Smoker’s Widow, Daughter Prevail In Tobacco Company Appeal Of Jury Verdict

(January 16, 2019, 8:02 AM EST) -- MIAMI — A divided Third District Florida Court of Appeal on Dec. 26 found that although an analogy drawn by counsel for a plaintiff in an Engle progeny case — that the 450,000 deaths from smoking each year are roughly akin to three airline crashes per day— was “provocative and even somewhat inflammatory,” it was nonetheless “mild considered the magnitude of the number of deaths due to smoking” (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Diane Schleider, et al., No. 3D15-1634, Fla. App. 3rd Dist., 2018 Fla. App. LEXIS 18608)....

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