Fort Lauderdale lawyers Justin Parafinczuk and Austin Carr of Koch Parafinczuk Wolf Susen used Stuart v. Hertz‘s causation theory, rarely seen in tobacco cases, to land a $6.5 million Miami-Dade jury verdict for the family of Glenn Simmons, a cancer patient killed by complications after radiation treatment.

Simmons’ daughter Hanifah Harewood brought the lawsuit in 2007 against R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., owners of Kool Cigarettes, and its two previous owners — Brown & Williamson and the American Tobacco Co.