Affirmed.
Taylor, Klingensmith and Kuntz, JJ., concur.
Kogan v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 255 So. 3d 327 (2018)
Oct. 18, 2018
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District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
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No. 4D17-2256
255 So. 3d 327
Steven KOGAN, Appellant,
v.
R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, a foreign corporation, individually and as successor by merger to Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation and successor through merger to The American Tobacco Company, a foreign corporation, Philip Morris USA Inc., a foreign corporation, and Lorillard Tobacco Company, a foreign corporation, Appellees.
No. 4D17-2256
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
[October 18, 2018]
Lance V. Oliver and Sara O. Couch of Motley Rice, LLC, Mt. Pleasant, SC, John Hutchins Pinder, VI, Kent G. Whittemore, and Erin W. Lohmiller of The Whittemore Law Group, P.A., St. Petersburg, Bruce H. Denson of Bruce H. Denson, P.A., St. Petersburg, and Howard M. Acosta of the Law Offices of Howard M. Acosta, St. Petersburg, for appellant.
Scott M. Edson of King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC, and William L. Durham, II of King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA, for appellee R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
David M. Menichetti and Geoffrey J. Michael of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C., and Stephanie S. Sankar of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Kansas City, MS, for appellee Philip Morris USA Inc.