Mealey's (October 12, 2021, 1:57 PM EDT) -- MIAMI — Jurors in a Florida state court on Oct. 8 heard opening statements in the punitive damages-only phase of an Engle wrongful death action against a tobacco company for defectively designing and deceptively marketing cigarettes that caused the addiction and laryngeal cancer of a Cuban immigrant who died in 1996. VIDEO FROM THE TRIAL IS AVAILABLE....