Florida Panel Turns Away Tobacco Companies’ ‘Survivor’ Challenge To $2.1M Verdict

( April 18, 2025, 11:59 AM EDT) -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Fourth District Florida Court of Appeal panel on April 17 affirmed a jury’s $2.1 million compensatory damages verdict to a smoker’s daughter, which was challenged by two tobacco companies on the grounds that the daughter is not the smoker’s “survivor” under the Wrongful Death Act and therefore is entitled to only $7,000....