(June 7, 2024, 11:14 AM EDT) -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appellate panel affirmed a trial court’s ruling allowing a dead smoker’s daughter to add a claim for punitive damages to her wrongful death complaint against two tobacco companies, rejecting the companies’ argument that her claim is barred by Florida’s punitive damages statute because they have previously paid “hundreds of millions” of dollars in punitive damages for similar claims....