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PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC. v. DOUGLAS

No. 2D10-3236.

83 So.3d 1002 (2012)

PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC.; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; and Liggett Group, LLC, Appellants, v. James L. DOUGLAS, as Personal Representative for the Estate of Charlotte M. Douglas, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

March 30, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Geraghty of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Miami, and Gary L. Sasso , Carlton Fields , Tampa, for Appellant Philip Morris USA, Inc.

Gregory G. Katsas , Jones Day , Washington, D.C., for Appellant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

Karen H. Curtis of Clarke Silverglate & Campbell, P.A., Miami, for Appellant Liggett Group, LLC.

Steven L. Brannock , Celene H. Humphries , and Tyler K. Pitchford of Brannock & Humphries, Tampa, and Howard M. Acosta of Law Offices of Howard M. Acosta, St. Petersburg, for Appellee.

DAVIS, Judge.

Philip Morris USA, Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and Liggett Group, LLC (the Tobacco Companies), challenge the final judgment entered after jury trial which awarded James L. Douglas, as the personal representative of the Estate of Charlotte M. Douglas, $2.5 million as damages on claims based on Mrs. Douglas' smoking-related death.1

Mrs. Douglas began smoking cigarettes in the mid-1960s as a teen. The complaint...

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