Attorney Michael Piuze stunned the plaintiffs bar when he got a record $28 billion punitive damages verdict in 2002 for a Los Angeles woman who sued Philip Morris USA Inc. after being diagnosed with lung cancer. On Thursday, a federal jury in Los Angeles awarded $900,000 in noneconomic damages on behalf of the woman’s daughter, Jodie Bullock.
It’s a whimpering end to the litigation that catapulted Piuze into legal fame during the days of the tobacco wars.
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