Mealey's (August 6, 2021, 1:53 PM EDT) -- TALAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court on July 30 stayed briefing in a request by two tobacco companies that it review an appellate panel’s affirmance of a $5 million award to a smoker’s widower in an Engle case despite the panel finding that the widower’s counsel made “egregiously improper closing arguments” and ordered the case stayed pending the resolution of an Engle appeal centered on the applicability of Florida’s post-1999 punitive damages statute....