Kuyuk
08-13-2009, 10:29 PM
A Florida jury awarded a 92-year-old man $1.9 million in compensatory damages for the death of his wife, a former two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker who started when she was 16 and died in her 70s, attorneys said Thursday.
The jury of five women and one man deliberated for slightly more than a day before deciding on the amount, attorneys for both sides said. The jurors put the total award at $5.3 million but found that Philip Morris USA was only 36.5 percent responsible for the lung cancer that plaintiffs said killed Leon Barbanell's wife.
Shirley Barbanell herself was deemed 63.5 percent responsible, the attorneys said.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/13/florida.tobacco.award/index.html
While I usually like our judicial system, I still cant get over cases such as these. Oh well, more money out of the pockets of tobacco is good I guess.
I wonder if I would have the same views on the tobacco industry if they just put tobacco in cigs. instead of all the additives.
The jury of five women and one man deliberated for slightly more than a day before deciding on the amount, attorneys for both sides said. The jurors put the total award at $5.3 million but found that Philip Morris USA was only 36.5 percent responsible for the lung cancer that plaintiffs said killed Leon Barbanell's wife.
Shirley Barbanell herself was deemed 63.5 percent responsible, the attorneys said.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/13/florida.tobacco.award/index.html
While I usually like our judicial system, I still cant get over cases such as these. Oh well, more money out of the pockets of tobacco is good I guess.
I wonder if I would have the same views on the tobacco industry if they just put tobacco in cigs. instead of all the additives.