Jury Awards More Than $165M Against Monsanto For PCB Injuries At Seattle School

(November 21, 2023, 12:48 PM EST) -- SEATTLE — A Washington state jury on Nov. 20 awarded a combined total of $165,082,000 in compensatory and punitive damages to former teachers and staff at a Seattle area school for injuries stemming from exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), finding that Pharmacia LLC, a successor to Monsanto Co., was negligent when it supplied a product that was not safe and that Monsanto misrepresented facts about the dangers of PCBs....