Smoker’s Daughter Opposes Tobacco Companies’ ‘Survivor’ Challenge To $2.1M Verdict

(July 9, 2024, 1:31 PM EDT) -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A smoker’s daughter in a July 8 brief urges a Florida appellate court to reject arguments by two tobacco companies that she is not the smoker’s “survivor” under the Wrongful Death Act and therefore is entitled to only $7,000 of a $2.1 million compensatory damages verdict, arguing that the tobacco companies’ seek to “rewrite” the statute....