LASCHKE v. BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORP.

No. 2D99-2081.

766 So.2d 1076 (2000)

Jane LASCHKE and Rudolph Laschke, Appellants, v. BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORPORATION, individually and as successor by merger to The American Tobacco Company, a foreign corporation, and Lorillard Tobacco Company, a foreign corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied August 10, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard M. Acosta, St. Petersburg, for Appellants.

Joseph W. Hatchett, C. Lawrence Stagg and Margaret D. Mathews of Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, P.A., Tampa, and Kenneth J. Reilly of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., Miami, for Appellee Lorillard Tobacco Company.

Daniel F. Molony, Richard M. Zabak and Michael P. Winter of Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans, P.A., Tampa, and William E. Hoffmann, Jr. of King and Spalding, Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellee Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company.


CAMPBELL, Acting Chief Judge.

Appellants, Jane and Rudolph Laschke (the Laschkes), challenge the trial court's final summary judgment entered in favor of Appellees, Lorillard Tobacco Company and Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, individually and as a successor by merger to The American Tobacco Company (collectively Appellees). We affirm in part and reverse in part.

The Laschkes' second amended complaint seeks damages for injuries suffered by Jane...

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