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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Bokor finds the trial court erred in allowing "harmful hearsay statements" in the son's lawsuit alleging Philip Morris fraudulently concealed the dangers of the cigarettes that caused his mother to die from lung cancer. Philip Morris correctly argues that testimony the mother's sons gave at trial regarding her expressions of anger at the tobacco companies following her cancer diagnosis, specifically that the companies represented that filtered cigarettes were safer, was "backward-looking" and did not properly speak to her state of mind at the time. Because it cannot be proved that this inadmissible hearsay did not contribute to the $43 million verdict in the son's favor, the trial court's final judgment is reversed and the case is remanded for a new trial. Reversed.