Bayer Hit With $857 Million Verdict on Toxic Monsanto Chemicals
- Washington jury finds PCBs in school lights caused illness
- Bayer inherited Monsanto legal liabilities in 2018 acquisition
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Bayer AG was ordered to pay $857 million to former students and parent volunteers at a Seattle-area school who blamed exposure to the company’s hazardous chemicals at the facility for causing brain damage and other ailments.
A jury in Washington state on Monday found that levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, at the school weren’t “reasonably safe” and awarded $73 million in compensatory damages and $784 million in punitive damages to two parents who volunteered at Sky Valley Education Center along with five former students, according to court filings.