Broward jury awards a Hollywood widow of smoker $1.5 million
A Broward jury awards a Hollywood widow of tobacco smoker about $1.5 for million for the death of her husband. He died of lung cancer at the age of 69 in 1996 after smoking four or three packs of Winston cigarettes a day.
The jury decided in R.J. Reynolds Tobacco’s favor on four of five counts, but on the fifth count found that John Sherman’s death was caused by the company concealing information about the health effects of smoking cigarettes. The jury assigned equal responsibility between Sherman and the company for his death. Gary Paige, attorney for widow Melba Sherman, said she is “very grateful.”
R.J. Reynolds vowed to appeal.
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