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A jury has ordered Philip Morris USA to pay $18.8 million to a woman for smoking injuries.
Jump to full article: Miami (FL) Herald, 2005-03-30
Author: BOB VAN VORIS / Bloomberg News
Intro: Altria Group's Philip MorrisUSA, 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 awarded punitive damages of $17.1 million on Tuesday 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. The verdict is the first against Philip Morris in New York in a personal-injury suit linked to smoking, said Edward L. Sweda Jr., an attorney with the Tobacco Products Liability Project in Boston, an anti-smoking group.
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