Dead smoker’s daughter gets $16 million damages
August 25, 2009 by admin
Filed under Quit Smoking News
Tobacco giant Philip Morris is to pay a whooping $16 in punitive damages to the daughter of a long-time smoker who died of lung cancer.
In February 2003 American Betty Bullock died of lung cancer at the age of 64 years after 47 years of chain smoking.
Two years before her death, the incurably ill woman sued the tobacco company Philip Morris for fraud because the company, according to Bullock deceived her deliberately concealing the health risks of smoking and therefore are responsible for her smoking – and thus causing her lung cancer.
When Betty Bullock died, her daughter took over her action, and shortly after her mother’s death, a jury recommended that Jodie Bullock was awarded staggering 28 billion dollars in punitive damages, in addition to damages of $750,000 and $100,000 for pain and suffering.
The latter two amounts has been maintained through several courts, while punitive damages have been subjected to scrutiny.
The judge in the original case chose to ignore because the jury’s recommendation and imposed punitive damages to a thousandth, but still had $28 million U.S.
Philip Morris appealed, and Jodie Bullock is now by a jury in Los Angeles awarded nearly half penalty compensation: 13.8 million U.S. dollars. 
Altria Group Inc., which owns Philip Morris, has throughout the proceedings insisted that they can not be held responsible for the death of Betty Bullock, and that she could have quit any time.
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