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The widow of a longtime smoker will collect $82 million from Philip Morris USA after the US Supreme Court refused to take the case.
 
The award consists of about $5 million in compensatory damages, $50 million in punitive damages, with the rest, interest accrued since the original judgement.
 
The Supreme Court has also been asked to review another judgement against Philip Morris, this one from a court in Oregon, in which the punitive damages outweigh the compensatory damages by a much higher margin.

Widow's Legal Battle With Philip Morris Ends

Los Angeles Times - 3/21/2006 3:03 AM

Five years after a landmark defeat in a Los Angeles courtroom, tobacco giant Philip Morris USA has exhausted its appeals and will have to pay record damages of more than $82 million to the widow of a longtime smoker of its Marlboro cigarettes.
 
Without comment, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a 2001 verdict in the case filed by Richard Boeken of Topanga. Boeken, who began smoking in his teens, died of cancer at 57, shortly after the verdict in the first suit by an individual smoker ever tried in Los Angeles.
 
Although cigarette makers have agreed to some major settlements, including $246 billion to end lawsuits by the states, in more than 50 years of litigation, they have had to write checks to only a handful of ind
 
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