Judge Affirms $40M Award For C8 Cancer Victim, But Cuts Wife’s Award By $9.75M

Mealey's (March 30, 2021, 10:04 AM EDT) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge in Ohio on March 29 denied a motion by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. to reduce a $40 million jury award to a man who developed cancer from exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid (known as C8), ruling that it was “fully supported by the evidence,” but the judge slashed his wife’s award for loss of consortium from $10 million to $250,000....