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Personal Injury & Torts

Dec. 14, 2002

Airlines Hit With Smoking Award

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld the largest individual second-hand smoking award in the United States, ruling that Olympic Airways must pay $1.4 million to the family of a California doctor who died in a severe asthma attack when he was seated too close to the plane's smoking section.

By Pamela A. MacLean
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld the largest individual second-hand smoking award in the United States, ruling that Olympic Airways must pay $1.4 million to the family of a California doctor who died in a severe asthma attack when he was seated too close to the plane's smoking s...

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