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R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO. v. JEWETT

No. 1D11-3653.

106 So.3d 465 (2012)

R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, etc. and Lorillard Tobacco Company, Appellant, v. Thomas G. JEWETT, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Barbara Jean Jewett, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied January 31, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Parrish , Andrew Jackson Knight , Jeffrey A. Yarbrough , and David C. Reeves , Moseley Prichard Parrish Knight & Jones, Jacksonville, Elliot H. Scherker , Greenberg Traurig, Miami, Roger C. Geary and Stacey E. Deere , Shook Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, Stephanie E. Parker , John F. Yarber , and John M. Walker , Jones Day, Atlanta, GA, James B. Murphy , Shook Hardy & Bacon, Tampa, Daniel Welner , Hughes Hubbard & Reed, New York, NY, John A. Devault, III and Patrick P. Coll , Bedell Dittmar Devault Pillans & Coxe, Jacksonville, Charles Beall, Jr. , Moore, Hill & Westmoreland, Pensacola, and Gregory G. Katsas , Washington, DC, for Appellant.

Norwood S. Wilner , Stephanie J. Hartley , Richard J. Lantinberg , and Janna M. Blasingame , Wilner Hartley & Metcalf, Jacksonville, Charles Farah and Eddie Easa Farah , Farah & Farah, Jacksonville, and Shannon McLin Carlyle , Christopher V. Carlyle , and Earle W. Peterson , The Carlyle Appellate Law Firm, The Villages, for Appellee.

MAKAR, J.

The appeal in this Engle-progeny1 wrongful death action arises from a jury award of damages to the Estate of Barbara Jewett ("Estate") due to her death from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ("COPD"). The defendants, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Lorillard Tobacco Company ("Tobacco"2) raise three issues on appeal, two of which we summarily affirm.3

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