Florida High Court Holds Arguments In Dispute Over Adult Child’s $20M Award

Mealey's (June 7, 2018, 11:05 AM EDT) -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In oral arguments on June 6 in a dispute over a vacated $20 million compensatory and punitive damage award, Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara J. Pariente told an attorney for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. that the relationship between a plaintiff and her late mother, who died of lung cancer, was so exceptionally close that “every factor” points to “a substantial verdict for her pain and suffering, and loss of companionship” (Gwendolyn E. Odom v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., No. SC17-563, Fla. Sup.)....