( March 22, 2024, 9:11 AM EDT) -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Two tobacco companies in a brief filed to the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal challenge a $2.1 million compensatory damages verdict they were ordered to pay the widower of a dead smoker who died while the appeal was pending, arguing that the estate’s new representative, his daughter, is not the smoker’s statutory survivor and therefore can claim only roughly $7,000 in funeral expenses....