Cigarette Makers Lose Appeal on 4,000 Florida Suits
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Altria Group Inc.’s Philip Morris USA unit and other U.S. cigarette makers lost an appeal affecting about 4,000 Florida smoker suits in federal court.
A federal appeals court in Atlanta today denied the companies’ request to block lower courts from applying a 2006 Florida Supreme Court decision they claimed deprived them of fair trials in death and injury suits filed in the state.