Tobacco Company Tells Panel Malpractice Settlement Precludes Widow’s Engle Claims

(September 10, 2024, 2:55 PM EDT) -- MIAMI — A tobacco company filed an answer brief to the Fourth District Florida Court of Appeal urging it to affirm summary judgment on a smoker’s widow’s wrongful death claim against it for causing her husband’s lung cancer and death, in which it says the court correctly found all claims against it precluded by the dead husband’s settlement of medical malpractice claims against his cancer doctor....