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His mother was a smoker who died of lung cancer at the age of 54.  So when W.C. Gentry of Jacksonville got the call to join a team of lawyers fighting Big Tobacco to recover state Medicaid dollars spent on those smokers’ care, his was an easy answer.  Their $13 billion plus settlement, the largest recovery in the history of jurisprudence at the time, led to an eventual multistate settlement.As a past president of this organization, W.C. Gentry became a veteran of the tort reform wars of the mid-1980’s, that are still being fought today.  Among his many honors, is the Perry Nichols Award - the Florida Justice Association’s most prestigious.  It’s given to a person whose perseverance, commitment, and unmatched dedication to the civil justice system is at the forefront of his or her life.W.C. Gentry sat down with Florida Justice Association Radio host Harvey Bennett in February 2018 to discuss his expansive career, the role he’s played along the way in changing child abuse reporting laws, and his special interes