Jury awards punitive damages to smoker's daughter

Courtesy Newsvine - business  Mon, 08/24/2009 - 16:50

A federal jury in Los Angeles says cigarette maker Philip Morris USA should pay $13.8 million in punitive damages to the daughter of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer.


 

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