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  • Mass. jury rules against Lorillard, awards $71M to dead smoker's family

    12/14/2010 2:52:48 PM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 25 replies · 1+ views
    boston.com ^ | Dec. 14, 2010
    A Massachusetts jury today ordered cigarette manufacturer Lorillard Inc. to pay $71 million in damages to a dead smoker's family for allegedly seducing the Boston woman decades ago into smoking Newport cigarettes. The Suffolk Superior Court jury awarded compensatory damages of $50 million to the estate of Marie Evans and $21 million to her son, William Evans. A hearing on punitive damages in the lawsuit has been scheduled for Thursday. The total amount of damages awarded could rise significantly at that hearing. The case was the first to claim that Lorillard had decided to target minority communities with samples of...