On direct examination, Sharon Putney testified that her mother, Margot Putney, tried to tell Sharon "Happy Birthday" nine days before her mother's death, but she "couldn't get the words out."
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The jury in Putney v. R.J. Reynolds deliberated only briefly before determining that Margot Pitney died of lung cancer, rather than thyroid cancer, as the defense had suggested.
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Closing arguments in Putney v. RJ Reynolds began today. Plaintiff attorney Charles Baumberger argued that the treating physicians were in the best position to diagnose Margot Putney's cancer, and the treating physicians -- "the eye witnesses" -- all concluded that the cancer began in the lung, not the thyroid. "They say that five treating physicians got it wrong!"
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