Not that there is a price on life, but there's one thing to provide a couple million to the family, it's a whole other thing to give $81M.
It's ridiculous settlements like this that help our health care costs skyrocket.
Here's the best part:
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William Evans, a Harvard Law School graduate who has spent years battling the tobacco company, wept and hugged one of his attorneys when the punitive damages were announced this afternoon.
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Of course they wept, they just leveraged a dead woman into probably $10million+ in revenue for their legal fees.