Smokers’ Children Urge Panel To Affirm $8.1M Verdict, Deny Any Jury Errors

(May 9, 2024, 12:49 PM EDT) -- MIAMI — The children of a dead smoker argue in a brief to a Florida appellate panel that it should affirm an $8.1 million compensatory damages judgment in their favor against a tobacco company for causing their father’s nicotine addiction, lung cancer and death, writing that a juror’s disclosure of opinions about cigarettes did not require disqualification during voir dire and that the court’s instructions on fraud-related findings from Engle were proper....