JURY VERDICT | Jury awards $29.1 MILLION to widow in tobacco case | BROWARD COUNTY

BROWARD COUNTY - Accoring to the Bloomberg News (5/20, Van Voris) reported, "R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. must pay $29.1 million to Connie Buonomo, the widow of a Florida man who started smoking at age 13 and died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2008, a jury in Fort Lauderdale said.

The unanimous verdict today by six state jurors includes $4.1 million in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages." Jurors in Florida "have delivered more than $230 million in verdicts for smokers and their families since February 2009."

FLORIDA JURY AWARDS $30 million in smoker's death

BROWARD COUNTY - A Broward County jury awarded $20 million in punitive damages to the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer.

The six-person jury found that Philip Morris USA and R.J. Reynolds each shared a third of the responsibility for 68 year old smoker’s 1994 death and the smoker shared a third of the responsibility.

The jury also awarded $10 million in compensatory damages, to be divided among the three responsible parties.

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