An Arkansas man has been awarded more than $19m (€16.1m) after a jury found that a tobacco company’s defective product contributed to his wife’s death.
The federal verdict includes $15m (€12.7m) in punitive damages against Brown & Williamson Tobacco and $4m (€3.4m) in actual damages over the 1999 smoking-related death of Mary Jane Boerner.
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