R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO. v. JONES

Case No. 2D19-3537.

312 So.3d 1019 (2021)

R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Appellant, v. Janice Durrance JONES and Julian Dale Durrance, as personal representative for the Estate of Dorothy Watson Durrance, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Opinion filed March 3, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marie A. Borland and Troy A. Fuhrman of Hill Ward Henderson, Tampa; and Jason T. Burnette , Jones Day, Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellant.

David J. Sales and Daniel R. Hoffman of David J. Sales, P.A., Sarasota; James W. Gustafson, Jr. , Brian R. Denney , Laurie J. Briggs , and T. Hardee Bass, III of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A, West Palm Beach; and Hutch Pinder of Whittmore Law Group, St. Petersburg, for Appellees.


R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company appeals a final judgment entered after a jury trial in favor of Janice Durrance Jones and Julian Dale Durrance in their wrongful death action based on their mother's tobacco-related death in this Engle1 progeny case. The jury awarded each of the plaintiffs...

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