Fla. Judge Rejects Jury's $6M Verdict Against RJ Reynolds

By Brandon Lowrey (November 3, 2016, 5:04 PM EDT) -- A Florida jury awarded $6 million to the family of a chain-smoking Cuban dissident who died of laryngeal cancer but the judge overseeing the case immediately threw out the jury's finding that punitive damages against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. were warranted, saying that the evidence didn't support it and the plaintiff's closing arguments were flawed....

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