Justice Partly Amends Judgment For Smoker’s Death, Denies Claim Of Extreme ‘Bias’

( February 10, 2025, 10:52 AM EST) -- SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A Massachusetts state court justice on Feb. 7 agreed that a previously entered judgment worth more than $105 million in favor of the widower of a dead smoker should be amended to reduce the attorney fees award and recalculate the trebled damages award but otherwise maintained the judgment, which the tobacco company had in part claimed was evidence of “extreme bias.”...