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• Miami-based Vector Group must pay $700k over smoker's death  

Jump to full article: Miami (FL) Herald, 2009-03-06
Author: JEF FEELEY AND MORT LUCOFF Bloomberg News

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A Vector Group unit must pay about $700,000 to the family of a retired trucking-company supervisor who died of lung cancer after smoking for 55 years, a Florida jury ruled.

A state court jury in Fort Lauderdale concluded Friday that Vector's Liggett Group LLC is liable for Joseph Ferlanti's death in 2004.

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