Fla. Court Issues Rulings in Tobacco Case, Says Defendants Can Present Evidence of Other Occupational Chemical Exposure

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. –– A Florida federal court has issued a ruling on a variety of in limine motions filed by both parties in a cigarette exposure suit, ruling in part that the defendants in the case may present evidence that the decedent’s bladder cancer could have been caused by exposure to occupational chemicals.

In the Feb. 6 order, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida also barred the plaintiffs from presenting evidence critiquing polling results by an expert in a previous tobacco trial.

Leslie Woodruff asserted the claims, contending that Gregg Woodruff’s addiction to nicotine in cigarettes …