The estate of a woman who died from metastatic lung cancer was awarded $4.5 million in damages following a jury trial against two manufacturers of cigarettes. However, the award was reduced to $900,000 due to the jury's finding that the deceased was 80 percent liable.

In November 2016, plaintiff's decedent Diana Scandella, 56, was diagnosed with lung cancer. Scandella smoked her first cigarette in 1969 when she was 9 years old. By 1972, she was a regular smoker. She originally smoked Marlboro cigarettes before switching to Winston cigarettes in 2000.