Mealey's (January 7, 2019, 1:47 PM EST) -- LAKELAND, Fla. — In a Jan. 2 per curiam holding, Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal turned away a challenge by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. to an April 2017 verdict that required the tobacco company to pay the widow of a lung cancer victim $13.8 million in compensatory and punitive damages (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Mary Lima, No. 2D17-4620, Fla. App. 2nd Dist., 2019 Fla. App. LEXIS 44)....