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RJ Reynolds Tobacco, the second largest tobacco company in the US, stands to benefit from a Georgia court ruling that prevents Georgia residents from pursuing punitive damages from companies that signed the tobacco settlement agreement in 1998.
 
The suit in question, by the family of a lung cancer victim, does return to federal court.

Georgia Supreme Court Bars Punitive Damages From Individual

PR Newswire - 3/15/2006 12:19 AM

In the Gault case, the family of Clara Gault Freeman, who died of lung cancer in 2001, has brought a product liability action against the former Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation (B&W's domestic tobacco business merged with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company on July 31, 2004) seeking compensatory and punitive damages. The case will now return to a federal district court for f
 
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