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• Ferlanti v. Liggett Group - Trial  

Description: This is the second "Engle" tobacco case to go to trial after a Broward County jury awarded nearly $8 million to the widow of a smoker who died from lung cancer.

After a Miami jury awarded the largest class action verdict in history to smokers who claim major tobacco companies withheld critical information about the dangers of smoking, the Florida Supreme Court determined that each case had to be tried individually.

By presiding over the first two of nearly 8000 of these individual suits, Judge Streitfeld could set an important standard for how future "Engle litigation" will play out across the state Florida.

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