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Benchmarks: Fla. court slashes $16.2M from smoker award 

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    • December 3, 2012

A Florida appeals court has overturned a jury’s award of $16.2 million in punitive damages to a now-deceased cigarette smoker, concluding that Philip Morris should have been allowed to present a statute of repose defense to the smoker’s fraud-based conspiracy claim.
Last week, the Florida Court of Appeal (4th District) » […]

Original post by http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/12/03/benchmarks-fla-court-slashes-16-2m-from-smoker-award/

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