Mass. High Court Says Tobacco Settlement Doesn’t Preclude Punitives For Widow

Mealey's (September 15, 2021, 2:24 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Sept. 15 affirmed a jury award of $21 million in compensatory and punitive damages to a smoker’s widow, ruling that the state’s entry into a 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) did not preclude punitive damages because the state’s attorney general in entering the MSA did not represent the widow’s statutory interest in her wrongful death action....

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