Mealey's (December 17, 2018, 1:42 PM EST) -- BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Following a denial by the U.S. Supreme Court in February of a petition for certiorari by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., a Connecticut federal judge on Dec. 13 found that a cancer patient is entitled to $8 million in punitive damages and $36.4 million in offer-of-judgment interest on top of an existing $7.9 million compensatory damage award (Barbara Izzarelli v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., No. 99-2338, D. Conn., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 210199)....