Florida Panel Sides With Tobacco Company, Reverses Punitive Damage Award

(February 11, 2019, 11:49 AM EST) -- DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A divided Fifth District Florida Court of Appeal on Feb. 7 found that a trial court erred in applying the pre-1999 version of Florida’s punitive damages statute in an Engle-progeny case and not the post-1999 version of the law, which was in effect at the time of a smoker’s death in 2007 (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Mary Sheffield, No. 5D17-2521, Fla. App., 5th Dist., 2019 Fla. App. LEXIS 1837)....

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