The daughter of a Delray Beach woman who died of lung cancer at 58 was awarded $20 million by a Palm Beach Circuit Court jury.
Gwen Odom sued R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. as the representative of the estate of her mother, Juanita Thurston. The three-week trial before Circuit Judge Timothy McCarthy ended Monday after the jury awarded $14 million in punitive damages in the second phase of deliberations.
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