R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO v. BESSENT-DIXON

No. 1D19-1995.

313 So.3d 173 (2021)

R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Appellant, v. Frances BESSENT-DIXON, individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Tyrone M. Dixon, deceased, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

January 15, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Val Leppert and William L. Durham II of King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Appellant.

Celene H. Humphries of Brannock & Humphries, Tampa; Rod Smith and Dawn M. Vallejos-Nichols of Avera & Smith, Gainesville; Joshua A. Whitman and Eric L. Leach of Milton Leach Whitman D'Andrea & Eslinger, P.A., Jacksonville, for Appellees.


R.J. Reynolds appeals the trial court's final judgment awarding compensatory and punitive damages to Appellee. We reverse with directions to grant Appellant a new trial.

The trial court erred when it failed to instruct the jury that to prove the intentional tort of conspiracy to fraudulently conceal information, Appellee...

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