(September 3, 2019, 1:26 PM EDT) -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appeals court on Aug. 28 found that a trial court erred in limiting a tobacco company’s ability to defend against a decedent’s class membership after it withdrew its affirmative defense of comparative negligence, reversing a $40.9 million verdict (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Leslie Schlefstein, as personal representative of the estate of Dawn Schlefstein, No. 4D18-1150, Fla. App., 4th Dist., 2019 Fla. App. LEXIS 13209)....