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RUSSO v. PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC.

No. 3D15-1348.

208 So.3d 172 (2016)

Tina RUSSO, as Executor de son tort of the Estate of Phyllis Frazier, deceased, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC., a Virginia corporation, and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, a North Carolina corporation, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

October 19, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerson & Schwartz, Edward S. Schwartz and Philip M. Gerson , for appellant/cross-appellee.

Arnold & Porter, and Geoffrey J. Michael , Washington, D.C.; Shook Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., and William P. Geraghty and Rachel A. Canfield , for appellee/cross-appellant Philip Morris USA, Inc.; Jones Day, and Gregory G. Katsas , Washington, D.C.; Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, and Geoffrey K. Beach and Howell A. Burkhalter , Winston-Salem, N.C.; Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, and Jeffrey A. Cohen , for appellee/cross-appellant, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

Before WELLS and LOGUE, JJ., and LEVY, Senior Judge.

The estate of a tobacco plaintiff appeals a final judgment in the defendant tobacco companies' favor, wherein the estate maintained an addiction to cigarettes containing nicotine was a legal cause of plaintiff's disease and death. Finding no merit to the claims of error raised, we affirm the final judgment and therefore find no need to...

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