Smoker’s Widower Appeals To Florida High Court Case In Which $41M Verdict Was Reversed

(January 17, 2020, 7:57 PM EST) -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The widower of a smoker on Dec. 20 appealed to the Florida Supreme Court after a Florida appeals court reversed a $40.9 million jury verdict and ordered a new trial on the grounds that the trial court erred by blocking a tobacco company from challenging the smoker’s Engle class membership (Leslie Schlefstein, etc. v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., No. 19-2147, Fla. Sup.)....

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