Panel Denies Tobacco Companies’ Petition Seeking Dismissal Of Engle Progeny Case

(July 16, 2019, 7:26 AM EDT) -- MIAMI — A Florida appellate panel on July 3 denied two tobacco companies’ petition for a writ of certiorari to quash an order that denied their motion to dismiss an Engle progeny case because a widow did not obtain counsel by court-ordered deadlines and because her husband’s estate did not move for a substitute plaintiff for him within the required time (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al. v. Ray Lacey, No. 3D19-578, Fla. App., 3rd Dist., 2019 Fla. App. LEXIS 10596)....

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