Jury Awards $23.6 Billion in Florida Smoking Case

A jury in Florida awarded a staggering $23 billion judgment against R. J. Reynolds, the country’s second-largest tobacco company, for causing the death of a smoker who died of lung cancer at the age of 36. [Source]

Origin: nytimes.com

Category: Florida

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