Debate Continues Over Statute Of Repose In Monsanto’s $185M PCB Verdict Appeal

(February 7, 2024, 2:02 PM EST) -- SEATTLE — Teachers who won a total award of $185 million against Monsanto Co. in 2021 for injuries from exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls XE "polychlorinated biphenyls"  (PCBs) at a Seattle area school where they taught and Monsanto have each filed additional supplemental briefs in Washington state appeals court in their ongoing debate over the applicability of the statute of repose in the Washington Product Liability Act (WPLA).  The teachers contend that the Washington Supreme Court has struck down the statute, and Monsanto insists that the decision upon which the teachers rely for that conclusion involves a case that is “fundamentally different.”...