A Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal ruling is bad news for the estate of a deceased smoker. The hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney fees the trial judge entered as sanctions against the opposing party went up in flames on appeal.

Matt Mandel, an attorney fees expert and the chair of the litigation division at Weiss Serota Helfman Cole + Bierman in Fort Lauderdale, is not involved in the litigation between the appellant, Philip Morris USA Inc., and the appellee, the Estate of Rita Shifrin.

9/5/18- West Palm Beach- The Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal, 110 South Tamarind Ave., West Palm Beach, FL. Photo: J. Albert Diaz/ALM Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach (Credit: J. Albert Diaz/ALM)

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