PHILIP MORRIS USA INC. v. BUCHANAN

No. 1D13-1528.

155 So.3d 1156 (2014)

PHILIP MORRIS USA INC. and Liggett Group LLC., Appellants, v. Nan Kathryn BUCHANAN, Personal Representative of the Estate of Mitchell Ivan Buchanan, deceased, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied August 27, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher P. Nease , Connor J. Sears , and Natalya Y. Northrip of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., Kansas City, Mo., E.C. Deeno Kitchen of Ervin, Kitchen & Ervin, Tallahassee, Joseph H. Lang, Jr. of Carlton, Fields, Jorden, Burt, P.A., Tampa, and Lauren R. Goldman of Mayer Brown, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Appellant Philip Morris USA Inc.; Karen H. Curtis of Clarke Silverglate, P.A., Miami, Kelly Anne Luther and Maria H. Ruiz of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP, Miami, for Appellant Liggett Group LLC.

David J. Sales of David J. Sales, P.A., Jupiter, James W. Gustafson, Jr. , Laurie J. Briggs , and T. Hardee Bass, III of Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart & Shipley, West Palm Beach, and John S. Mills of The Mills Firm, P.A., Tallahassee.


In this "Engle progeny" case, two tobacco companies appeal the judgment entered against them in the wrongful death action Nan Kathryn Buchanan brought after her husband died. See generally Engle v. Liggett Group, Inc., 945 So.2d 1246 (Fla.2006). We...

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