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UPDATED-INFO: Adds Philip Morris comment, details of case, starting in sixth paragraph.
Jump to full article: Bloomberg News, 2005-03-28
Author: Bob Van Voris; Editors: Oster, Reichl.
Intro: Altria Group Inc.'s Philip Morris USA, the nation's largest cigarette maker, was ordered to pay a lung-cancer patient and her husband $18.8 million in what would be the largest payment to an individual smoker.
A New York jury today awarded punitive damages of $17.1 million to Norma Rose, 72, and her husband Leonard. Those damages are added to an earlier $1.7 million compensatory award in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
If approved on appeal, the payment would be the largest for an individual smoker, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. . . .
On March 18, the jury of four men and two women awarded the Roses $3.4 million in compensatory damages, to be paid equally by Philip Morris and American Tobacco Co., a company that no longer exists. Reynolds American Inc. is successor to the company and would pay any verdict if upheld.
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