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The Best And Worst Of Weeks For Big Tobacco
It’s been a week filled with litigation highs and lows for Big Tobacco.
First, the bad news for cigarettes companies. In Florida, where thousands of smoking cigarettes suits have been filed in the wake of a plaintiffs-friendly ruling by the state’s Supreme Court, a jury awarded $40 million earlier this week to the husband of a long-time smoker.
A Jacksonville jury awarded plaintiff Andy Allen $6 million in compensatory damages and another $34 million in punitive damages. His late wife died after smoking cigarettes two packs a day for 36 years, the Florida Times-Union reports.
“We didn’t do this for the money,” Allen said. “My wife died before we got to trial, but she made me promise that we would see this thing through.”
The suit is one of the so-called “Engle progeny” cases, which sprung to life following the Florida Supreme Court’s 2006 ruling that jury findings in a case brought by plaintiff Howard Engle would be binding in future smoking cigarettes cases in Florida. Among the findings: tobacco companies sold cigarettes that were “defective” and “unreasonably dangerous” and concealed the dangers of smoking cigarettes.
A spokesman for Philip Morris, one of the defendants in the Allen case, said the company would appeal the verdict. “This court violated Florida law and due process by allowing the plaintiff to rely on general findings by a prior jury that are unconnected to the facts in this case,” he said. “We also think that the punitive damages award is excessive.”
“We are disappointed with the jury’s decisions and plan to appeal,” said a spokesman for R. J. Reynolds, the other defendant.
Now, the good news for the tobacco biz: a St. Louis state-court jury today returned a verdict concluding that the city of St. Louis and 37 Missouri hospitals could not force tobacco companies to compensate the plaintiffs for the medical costs of treating sick smokers. The suit was filed against RJR, Philip Morris and other cigarette makers.
“The jury agreed with Philip Morris USA that ordinary cigarettes are not negligently designed or defective,” said Murray Garnick, in-house counsel for parent Altria Client Services.
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