Mealey's (August 9, 2021, 10:40 AM EDT) -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appellate panel on July 22 per curiam affirmed a jury’s $12.5 million compensatory damages verdict in favor of a smoker’s widow who brought an Engle wrongful death action against a tobacco company in a one-page ruling without commenting on the company’s argument that the trial court abused its discretion in part by allowing a doctor to compare the smoker’s illness to being “water-boarded” (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Diane Snyder, No. 4D20-1273, Fla. App., 4th Dist., 2021 Fla. App. LEXIS 11143)....