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BOSTON — The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a $10 million punitive damages award against Philip Morris in a wrongful death suit brought by the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer, finding the award is not precluded by the 1998 master settlement between the tobacco company and the state attorneys general.

/ September 15, 2021

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