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: Illinois Injury Lawyer BlogWidow of smoker gets $8 million in product liability damages
According to the Associated Press, a jury recently decided that cigarette-maker Philip Morris must pay a smoker?s widow $8 million in damages. The husband died in 1997 at age 55 after decades as a chain smoker. Experts have said that this product liability award is significant because tobacco companies still rarely lose in courts.
To read more about the cigarette-maker product liability verdict.
Full post as published by Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog on February 21, 2009 (boomark / email).
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