California Appeals Panel Affirms $3.75 Million Judgment Against Tobacco Company

Mealey's (August 31, 2017, 1:10 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California appellate court on Aug. 30 affirmed a $3.75 million verdict in a product defect and negligence suit against a tobacco company to the widow of a man who died from lung cancer after finding that the trial court did not err in excluding evidence of the man’s exposure to asbestos (Tajie Major v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., No. B260355, Calif. App. 2nd Dist. 8th Div., 2017 Cal. App. LEXIS 749)....

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