A $4.9 million jury verdict against Phillip Morris for the widow of a man who died of lung cancer and claimed he started smoking before warning labels appeared on cigarette packs and in advertisements was upheld by a federal appeals court Wednesday.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the award in favor of Florence Mulholland, who with her husband, David Mulholland, filed suit in 2005 alleging he would never have started smoking as a teenager in the 1960s had there been effective warnings about the dangers of cigarettes.
