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...skilled trial lawyer with a flair for the dramatic, he pulled at jurors' heartstrings by putting his ailing clients front and center. Mary Farnan, a nurse with lung and brain cancer, began smoking at age 11 and was unable to quit even during early rounds of chemotherapy. Frank Amodeo, a 60-year-old Orlando clockmaker with throat cancer, is unable to swallow food. Rosenblatt had hoped to put Angie Della Vecchia on the stand during the damages phase. She died before she could testify, but Rosenblatt made sure the jury saw the teary face of her husband Ralph in court...
...money," Rosenblatt said. "This was about showing up these companies for what they really are." Many of the plaintiffs--some of whom are unlikely to live to collect any damages--agreed. "No amount of money is going to change the way I have to eat," says throat-cancer victim Amodeo, who has to ingest nutrition through a hole in his stomach. "Fifteen cents, $15 million--it doesn't change...
...attorneys' attempt to explain away plaintiff Frank Amodeo's throat cancer by saying it was caused by wood dust the clockmaker had inhaled at work, not cigarettes: "To us, that was unbelievable," Finegan said. "It was insulting to me and an incredible level of denial in the face of all the evidence and the earlier verdict...
...plaintiffs were a grim collection of the walking wounded. Mary Farnan, who has been smoking since age 11, has lung cancer that has spread to her brain. Frank Amodeo's throat cancer forces him to eat through a hole in his stomach. Loren Lowery, a Vietnam veteran, has had part of his tongue cut out and his jaw replaced twice. Not the kind of opponents you'd want to challenge in front of a jury...
FULVIO S. AMODEO...