Mealey's (June 25, 2021, 12:51 PM EDT) -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appellate panel on June 23 denied two tobacco companies’ motion for rehearing en banc of the affirmance of a $5 million award to a smoker’s widower in which the court heavily critiqued “egregiously improper closing arguments” by plaintiff’s counsel without reversing but granted the companies’ motion for a revised written opinion that more explicitly addressed the standard for “harmless error.”...