Panel Rejects Tobacco Company’s Statutory Challenge To $8.8M Judgment

( October 18, 2024, 11:03 AM EDT) -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Fourth District Florida Court of Appeal panel on Oct. 17 affirmed an $8.8 million judgment in favor of a dead smoker’s estate, rejecting a tobacco company’s argument that due to intervening appeals the judgment was rendered no longer final and therefore must be reduced to lost support and services damages of $295,000....