The son of a smoker who won a $3 billion jury verdict against Philip Morris USA Inc. in 2001 is entitled to an additional $12.8 million for the loss of his father's relationship, an intermediate California appeals court has ruled.
July 11, 2013 at 03:26 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
The son of a smoker who won a $3 billion jury verdict against Philip Morris USA Inc. in 2001 is entitled to an additional $12.8 million for the loss of his father’s relationship, an intermediate California appeals court has ruled.
Richard Boeken died of lung cancer in 2002 while Philip Morris was appealing a Los Angeles jury’s award granting him $3 billion in punitive damages and $5.5 million in compensatory damages—at the time the largest verdict to date in million a smoker case.
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