Monsanto offices in Enkhuizen, Holland. Credit: Karen Eliot via Wikimedia Commons Monsanto Moves to Pause PCB Trial That Starts This Week
Monsanto's emergency stay motion comes after the Washington Supreme Court agreed on Oct. 9 to review a Washington Court of Appeals decision earlier this year reversing the first PCB verdict, a $185 million award in 2021.
October 15, 2024 at 02:03 PM
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What You Need to Know
- The trial is the ninth involving former students, teachers and parents at the Sky Valley Education Center who sued Monsanto over exposure to PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls.
- Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, has been hit with more than $1.6 billion in PCB verdicts in Seattle during the past three years.
- King County Superior Court Judge Michael Ryan rejected staying this week's trial on Oct. 10, allowing jury selection to begin Tuesday.
Monsanto has filed an emergency motion to halt a polychlorinated biphenyls trial in Seattle that starts Tuesday with jury selection.
The trial is the tenth involving former students, teachers and parents at the Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe, Washington, who sued Monsanto over exposure to PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, in the school's fluorescent light ballasts and caulk. More than 200 plaintiffs tied to the school allege they have suffered neurological problems, and Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, has been hit with more than $1.6 billion in verdicts during the past three years.
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