Jury In U.S. Virgin Islands Sides With Tobacco Plaintiffs, Awards $113 Million

Mealey's (August 28, 2018, 11:10 AM EDT) -- ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands — In what a public health research and advocacy nonprofit organization estimates are among the largest verdicts ever rendered in individual tobacco litigation, two juries empaneled in the U.S. Virgin Islands Superior Court in four separate verdicts issued in August ordered R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. to pay the children of two parents $113 million, including a $30 million punitive damage award rendered on Aug. 24 (Jevon Gerald v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al., No. ST-10-CV-631, U.S.V.I., Christian Brown v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al., No. ST-10-CV-692, U.S.V.I. Super.)....

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