An appeals court rules certified mail rather than an email rightfully put a settlement offer in play, defeating tobacco industry attempts to kill attorney fees on a multimillion-dollar verdict.
October 25, 2017 at 02:55 PM
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Cigarette makers in a products liability case failed Wednesday to show a procedural violation — a missing email — was sufficient to block attorney fees on a $10.5 million award to a late smoker’s family.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Philip Morris USA Inc. and Lorillard Tobacco Co. were defendants in a 2008 suit by John McCoy, a relative of a woman who died after years of heavy smoking.
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