A state court jury in Massachusetts returned a nine-figure verdict to the family of a smoker who died from cancer after over a half-century of smoking cigarettes.

Randy Rosenblum of Dolan Dobrinsky Rosenblum Bluestein in Miami, and Walter Kelley of Bernheim Kelley Battista in Fort Lauderdale and Boston represented the plaintiffs, the personal representatives of the estate of Rita Jones. The estate sued the defendant, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., which owns Lorillard Tobacco Co. whose cigarettes Jones puffed.

Walter Kelley of Bernheim Kelley Batistain, left, Trenice Jones, middle, and Randy Rosenblum, a partner at Dolan Dobrinsky Rosenblum Bluestein, right, outside the Suffolk County Courthouse in Pemberton Square in Boston, Massachusetts. Courtesy photo Walter Kelley of Bernheim Kelley Battista, left, Trenice Jones, middle, and Randy Rosenblum, a partner at Dolan Dobrinsky Rosenblum Bluestein, right, outside the Suffolk County Courthouse in Pemberton Square in Boston, Massachusetts. Courtesy photo

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