addiction to cigarettes that contain nicotine, and that the “cut-off’ date for class inclusion was November 21, 1996. In considering whether certain putative class representatives qualified as class members, the supreme court, looking to the plain language of the trial court’s revised class description, held that the “critical event [to qualify for Engle class membership] is not when an illness was actually diagnosed by a physician, but when the disease or condition first manifested itself.” Engle III, 945 So.2d at 1276. We believe it necessarily follows that inclusion in the Engle class requires Florida residence or citizenship when the disease or condition first manifests itself, not at the time of death. See Rearick v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 68 So.3d 944, 945 (Fla. 3d DCA 2011) (<HOLDING>). Appellees argue that Rearick is
holding qualification for membership in engle class requires plaintiff to show that decedent was florida resident at time of medical diagnosis of smokingrelated disease or at time evidence of causal relationship of cause of action had otherwise manifested itself holding that engle established the conduct elements of a fraudulent concealment cause of action holding that cause of action for asbestosis accrues upon discovery of disease not at time of exposure to asbestos holding that where no member of present plaintiff class had cause of action at time prior judgment was entered claim cannot be barred by res judicata holding that a cause of action for breach of contract accrues at the time of the breach