Fla. Judge To Reduce Landmark $300M Smoker’s Verdict In Engle Progeny Case
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Broward County, Fla., judge indicated at a Feb. 5 hearing that he plans to reduce a jury's award of $300 million to a nicotine-addicted former smoker in an Engle progeny suit, saying that the jury was clearly upset by the tobacco defendant's tactics and rendered an outsized punitive award that cannot stand under Florida law (Lucinda Naugle v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al., No. CACE07036736, Fla. Cir., 17th Jud. Cir., Broward Co.; See December 2004, Page 4). Full story on lexis.comFiled by admin at February 28th, 2010 under News