Fort Lauderdale attorneys won a $2.2 million verdict in an unusually fast-paced tobacco wrongful-death trial.

The Kelley/Uustal plaintiffs team secured the win after seven trial days, including the jury's deliberation, lead attorney Eric Rosen said. Hundreds of tobacco cases filed after the Florida Supreme Court disbanded the Engle statewide class action a decade ago are still winding their way through the court system, and each trial typically takes three to four weeks.

The July trial against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. included just a few witnesses from each side, Rosen said. The plaintiffs attorneys decided to try to keep the testimony of a tobacco historian to less than two days, focusing only on a handful of “smoking-gun documents” to argue the tobacco industry designed cigarettes to be addictive, he said.