2nd Circuit Panel Orders New Trial Over Punitives In Tobacco Suit

Mealey's (July 17, 2017, 1:29 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A panel of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 7 ordered a new trial on punitive damages only in a suit brought by a woman who claimed that a defect in her cigarettes caused her larynx cancer following a Connecticut Supreme Court decision that held that Connecticut’s common law rule, which limits punitive damages, does not apply to an award of statutory punitive damages (Barbara A. Izzarelli v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Nos. 11-3865, 113890, 2nd Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 12125)....

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