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Jump to full article: Reuters, 2001-03-08
Intro: The payment by the third-largest U.S. cigarette maker to 70-year-old Grady Carter of Orange Park, Fla., represented $750,000 in damages and $350,000 in interest accrued since Carter won a product liability lawsuit against Brown & Williamson in 1996 in Jacksonville.
Brown and Williamson spokesman Mark Smith however had this advice to Carter's lawyer, ``Don't spend it -- it's going to the U.S. Supreme Court.'' . .
``Today marks a great milestone,'' Wilner said. ``When this case was filed in 1995, we were called crazy. The cigarette industry was untouched in court. They had never paid a cent in damages to anyone.''
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