RJR Tells Fla. Supreme Court No Conflict Created By Denial Of Punitives For Widow

Mealey's (May 10, 2021, 8:30 AM EDT) -- MIAMI — R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (RJR) argues in a May 6 answer brief on jurisdiction to the Florida Supreme Court that the court should not hear a smoker’s widow’s appeal of an appellate panel’s affirmance of a directed verdict which RJR says did not create conflict and was proper in light of the trial court’s jury instructions regarding the burden of proof for punitive damages that the widow failed to satisfy....