STEVEN KOGAN
v.
R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, ET AL

Fla. 4th DCA | 2018-10-18
No. 17-2256
Sasser, J., Taylor, J., Klingensmith, J., Kuntz, J.
255 So. 3d 327 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fourth District (2018)

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Holding

The trial court's judgment in favor of the tobacco company defendants was affirmed.


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Steven Kogan brought a products liability action against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Philip Morris USA Inc., Lorillard Tobacco Company, and their p…

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Per_curiam
Per Curiam

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

FOURTH DISTRICT

STEVEN KOGAN

Appellant,

v.

R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, a foreign corporation, individually and as successor by merger to BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORPORATION and successor through merger to THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, a foreign corporation, PHILIP MORRIS USA INC., a foreign corporation, and LORILLARD TOBACCO COMPANY, a foreign corporation, Appellees.

No. 4D17-2256

[October 18, 2018]

Appeal and cross-appeal from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Meenu Sasser, Judge; L.T. Case No. 50-2007-CA-023657-XXX-MB.

Lance V. Oliver and Sara O. Couch of Motley Rice, LLC, Mt. Pleasant, SC, John Hutchins Pinder, VI, Kent G. Whittemore, and Erin W. Lohmiller of The Whittemore Law Group, P.A., St. Petersburg, Bruce H. Denson of Bruce H. Denson, P.A., St. Petersburg, and Howard M. Acosta of the Law Offices of Howard M. Acosta, St. Petersburg, for appellant.

Scott M. Edson of King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC, and William L. Durham, II of King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA, for appellee R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

David M. Menichetti and Geoffrey J. Michael of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C., and Stephanie S. Sankar of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Kansas City, MS, for appellee Philip Morris USA Inc.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed.

TAYLOR, KLINGENSMITH and KUNTZ, JJ., concur.

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