$8 Million Award in First Solo Tobacco Trial

Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 01:45 in Health & Medicine

A jury ordered Philip Morris to pay $8 million in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could set a standard for roughly 8,000 similar lawsuits in Florida.

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