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Unless an appellate ruling is changed, Philip Morris may have to pay a widow more than $75 million.
Jump to full article: Los Angeles Times, 2005-08-12
Author: Myron Levin, Times Staff Writer
Intro: Philip Morris USA said Thursday that it would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a California ruling that has brought the company a step closer to paying record damages to the widow of a deceased smoker.
The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to hear an appeal of a $55.4-million judgment against the top U.S. cigarette maker, a unit of Altria Group Inc. In June 2001, Philip Morris was found guilty of negligence and fraud in a lawsuit filed by Topanga resident Richard Boeken, a former Marlboro smoker then afflicted with lung cancer who died a few months later at 57.
Unless the U.S. high court agrees to intervene, Philip Morris will have to pay the judgment, plus at least $20 million in interest, to his widow, Judy Boeken.
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