When Philip Morris Inc.'s attorney offered to pay about $5 million in punitive damages to a woman dying of lung cancer, her lawyer scowled and suggested instead that $115 million would be more like it. "What I asked for is less than 1 percent of their net worth," said plaintiff's attorney Madelyn Chaber. Chaber on Friday delivered an acid-tipped closing argument to the seven-man, five-woman jury winding up the two-month trial in her suit against two tobacco giants.
April 05, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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When Philip Morris Inc.’s attorney offered to pay about $5 million in punitive damages to a woman dying of lung cancer, her lawyer scowled and suggested instead that $115 million would be more like it.
“What I asked for is less than 1 percent of their net worth,” said plaintiff’s attorney Madelyn Chaber. “That’s like getting a ticket for parking at an expired meter.”
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