Panel: Philip Morris Can’t Get New Trial After Mistrial In Punitive Phase

( December 5, 2022, 9:38 AM EST) -- MIAMI — A Florida appellate panel affirmed a trial court’s denial of a tobacco company’s motion for a new trial on liability and compensatory damages that it filed after the jury awarded a smoker’s estate more than $5.5 million but deadlocked on the issue of punitive damages, ruling that the court did not abuse its discretion....