Robert W. Kelley (Florida Attorney)
Robert W. Kelley is a Florida-based attorney who successfully represented plaintiff Cindy Naugle in Naugle v. Philip Morris USA, Inc in the largest tobacco verdict in US legal history. In the same year (2009) he was nominated for lawyer of the year. A jury ordered Philip Morris (Benson and Hedges) to pay $56.6 million in compensatory damages and $244 million in punitive damages to his client Cindy Naugle, who was suffering from emphysema caused by smoking. The case garnered attention nationally and internationally, with The New York times reporting:
"If it survives an appeal, the verdict late Thursday would be the nation’s largest award of damages to an individual suing a tobacco company and could encourage thousands of plaintiffs who have filed similar cases in Florida, according to Clifford E. Douglas of the University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network."
In the same year he obtained a $38.5 million verdict on behalf of Dale Whyte, who was left in a vegetative state following a faulty medical procedure. The defeated defendants were the two doctors in charge of the procedure which took place at the Atlantic Surgical Centre in Pompano Beach. an association that brings together SCUBA certified attorneys who help to preserve coral reefs and marine ecosystems around the coasts of Florida and the Bahamas. The organisation also pairs war veterans with expert divers to carry out coral reef restoration projects.
"If it survives an appeal, the verdict late Thursday would be the nation’s largest award of damages to an individual suing a tobacco company and could encourage thousands of plaintiffs who have filed similar cases in Florida, according to Clifford E. Douglas of the University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network."
In the same year he obtained a $38.5 million verdict on behalf of Dale Whyte, who was left in a vegetative state following a faulty medical procedure. The defeated defendants were the two doctors in charge of the procedure which took place at the Atlantic Surgical Centre in Pompano Beach. an association that brings together SCUBA certified attorneys who help to preserve coral reefs and marine ecosystems around the coasts of Florida and the Bahamas. The organisation also pairs war veterans with expert divers to carry out coral reef restoration projects.
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