Case ID: so3d_208/html/0172-02.html
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Author: {"author": "WELLS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Tina RUSSO, as Executor de son tort of the Estate of Phyllis Frazier, deceased, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC., a Virginia corporation, and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, a North Carolina corporation, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.
    No. 3D15-1348.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Oct. 19, 2016.
    Gerson & Schwartz, Edward S. Schwartz and Philip M. Gerson, for appellant/cross-appellee.
    
      Arnold & Porter, and Geoffrey J. Michael, Washington, D.C.; Shook Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., and William P. Geraghty and Rachel A. Canfield, for appellee/cross-appellant Philip Morris USA, Inc.; Jones Day, and Gregory G. Katsas, Washington, D.C.; Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, and Geoffrey K. Beach and Howell A. Burkhalter, Winston-Salem, N.C.; Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, and Jeffrey A. Cohen, for appellee/cross-appellant, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
    Before WELLS and LOGUE, JJ, and LEVY, Senior Judge.
   WELLS, J.

The estate of a tobacco plaintiff appeals a final judgment in the defendant tobacco companies’ favor, wherein the estate maintained an addiction to cigarettes containing nicotine was a legal cause of plaintiffs disease and death. Finding no merit to the claims of error raised, we affirm the final judgment and therefore find no need to and do not, address the tobacco company’s cross-appeal.