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Florida justices let verdict stand in tobacco case that may affect other product claims
Jump to full article: AP, 2008-12-11
Author: Bill Kaczor, Associated Press Writer
Intro: The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday let stand a Broward County smoker's $545,000 award in a tobacco case that also may affect liability claims for a broad range of other "inherently dangerous" products.
Those items can range from guns, knives, motorcycles and personal watercraft to less obvious products such as gasoline and sugar.
A jury found the design of Chesterfield cigarettes was flawed when it returned a verdict for Beverly Davis, who had smoked the brand for more than 20 years before contracting lung cancer. She died during the litigation, but her family continued the case.
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