PHILIP MORRIS USA INC. v. MANNING

No. 1D21-1155, No. 1D21-1181, No. 1D21-1184, No. 1D21-1199.

336 So.3d 870 (2022)

PHILIP MORRIS USA INC., Appellant, v. Jennifer MANNING, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Linda Lee Friedrich, Appellee. Philip Morris USA Inc., Appellant, v. Jonathan M. Smith, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Helen Donnelly, Appellee. Philip Morris USA Inc., Appellant, v. Bill Tozer, Appellee. Philip Morris USA Inc., Appellant, v. Jonathan M. Smith, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert E. Tillotson, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

April 20, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geoffrey J. Michael , of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC, and David Thorne of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., Kansas City, Missouri, for Appellant.

Michael J. Korn , of Korn & Zehmer, P.A., Jacksonville, Richard J. Lantinberg , A. Jay Plotkin and William P. Rothrock , of Jax, Litigation Group, P.A., Jacksonville, for Appellees.


AFFIRMED. See Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. Young, 690 So.2d 1377 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997).

B.L. THOMAS and NORDBY, JJ., concur; TANENBAUM, J., concurs in result with opinion.

TANENBAUM, J., concurring in result.

Pursuant to section 47.051, Florida Statutes, a...

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