"Award swells in tobacco lawsuit; Judge’s ruling could double $152m total" September 02, 2011|By Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff
A Superior Court judge ruled yesterday that the man who won a $152 million lawsuit last year against a tobacco company for causing the death of his mother - by giving her free cigarettes when she was just a child - can collect the money with interest retroactive to 2004, the year the case was filed.
The state allows for interest to be collected at 12 percent a year, meaning the $152 million judgment could essentially double....
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