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Tobacco Company Appeals $20 Million Wrongful Death Case
Jump to full article: AP, 2008-02-13
Author: Chris Blank, Associated Press Writer
Intro: A tobacco company's attorney told the Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday that the firm shouldn't have to pay $20 million in damages to the husband of a Kansas City-area woman who smoked for decades.
Many claims in Lincoln Smith's lawsuit against Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. were the same as ones a judge previously rejected in an unsuccessful lawsuit filed by his wife, Barbara, before she died, attorney Andrew McGaan said.
Both suits accused Brown & Williamson of causing the woman's respiratory and heart diseases and failing to warn about smoking dangers.
Barbara Smith, who smoked Kool cigarettes for about 50 years, died from a heart attack in 2000.
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