Source: Richard Craver, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 1/6/17


A Florida appeals court ruled Wednesday that an Engle progeny jury erred in 2013 in the amount of damages awarded against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. The damages amount — $15.3 million compensatory and $22.5 million punitive — in the Laura Grossman case is the second largest facing Reynolds in active Engle progeny lawsuits. Grossman died from lung cancer at age 38 in 1995.

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