Gary Paige and his legal team have won their fourth smoker verdict – a $21 million award on behalf of a 64-year-old Broward County woman.
The Broward Circuit Court verdict Thursday included $16.2 million in punitive damages and assigned 36 percent of the blame to plaintiff Ellen Tate, reducing the award from a total of $24 million. It is one of 22 cases to be tried across Florida since the Florida Supreme Court struck down a class action but gave individual smokers a right to sue with the benefit of the original Miami jury’s anti-tobacco findings.
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