by Jack Montgomery, The National Pulse:
Agrochemical giant Monsanto, owned by German biotechnology and pharmaceutical corporation Bayer AG since 2018, has been ordered to pay $857 million to students and parent volunteers who were sickened by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at the Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe, Washington, just north east of Seattle.
Jurors awarded seven plaintiffs $73 million in compensation and $784 million in punitive damages, after being convinced Monsanto had covered up the harmful effects of PCBs for years.
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“Monsanto… never warned anyone that [PCBs] would outlast whatever they’re put in,” said Felix Luna, representing the plaintiffs, in his closing argument to jurors.
“They never warned anyone that when it gets in the body that they’re metabolites for life, that they’re neurotoxic… a hazard, or [that] PCBs could lead to systemic poisoning.”
PCBs were banned in 1979, but fixtures and fittings containing them remain in many public buildings. Senator Edward Markey estimated up to 14 million students were still being exposed to PCBs in American school buildings in a 2016 report.
“We disagree with the verdict and will pursue posttrial motions and appeals to get this verdict overturned and to reduce the constitutionally excessive damages awarded,” Monsanto said of the ruling against them.
“The objective evidence in this case, including blood, air and other tests, demonstrates that plaintiffs were not exposed to unsafe levels of PCBs, and PCBs could not have caused their alleged injuries,” the corporation claimed.
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