SOURCE: Richard Craver, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 11/19/19

A high-profile Engle traditional cigarette progeny lawsuit ended last week with both R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Philip Morris USA facing a $74 million punitive damages award from a Florida jury. The verdict involves plaintiff Bryan Rintoul and the late Edward Caprio in a lawsuit filed in 2007 in the 17th Judicial Circuit of Florida. The lawsuit is noteworthy in part because it may be the first Engle complaint to go to trial involving a same-sex surviving spouse, according to Courtroom Video Network.

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