Mealey's (June 17, 2019, 12:10 PM EDT) -- ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida court should enter a directed verdict because evidence did not support the jury’s strict liability design-defect finding in a trial that resulted in $300,000 in survivorship damages and $16 million in punitive damages being awarded to the family of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. says in a May 8 reply brief in support of its renewed motion for directed verdict or, alternatively, for a new trial or remittitur (Brinda Coates v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al., No. 1997-CA-004541-O, Fla. 9th Jud. Cir., Orange Co.)....