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Jump to full article: AP, 2003-05-26
Intro: An Arkansas man was awarded more than $19 million Friday after a jury found that a tobacco company's defective product contributed to his wife's death.
The federal verdict includes $15 million in punitive damages against Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. and $4,025,000 in actual damages in the 1999 smoking-related death of Mary Jane Boerner.
The suit was first filed in June 1998 by Henry Boerner and Mary Jane Boerner. Mrs. Boerner, who had smoked for 36 years before quitting, died the following year at age 69.
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