SJC orders retrial for $81M in punitive damages in tobacco case Massachusetts’ highest court yesterday threw out an $81 million punitive damages award for the family of a late Roxbury woman who was hooked on cigarettes thanks to free samples she got as a child at her Orchard Park playground — but the court found her family can keep $35 million in compensatory damages in a ruling that experts said could make the state a magnet for tobacco suits.
June 12, 2013 - Boston Herald
Court Upholds $35 Million In Compensatory Damages To Smokers' Family In Wrongful Death Case Against Lorillard But ... WASHINGTON, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an important step forward for victims of the past predatory marketing practices of Big Tobacco, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued today its decision in Evans v. Lorillard, upholding $35 million in compensatory damages against Lorillard, the makers of mentholated Newport cigarettes. However, in a mixed decision it sent other ...
June 11, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! News
Mass. court splits decision in cigarette samples case, orders retrial on $81M punitive damages BOSTON — The family of a late Boston woman who got free cigarette samples as a child can keep $35 million in compensatory damages, but the state's highest court on Tuesday threw out an $81 million punitive damages award and ordered a new trial on that part of the case.
June 11, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune