Panel Should Affirm Choice Of Law Used In $185M PCB Verdict, Teachers Say

( December 20, 2023, 1:28 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 have filed a brief in a Washington state appeals court arguing that the trial court that heard their lawsuit did not err when it applied Missouri law over Washington’s statute of repose because a Washington Supreme Court ruling “effectively renders” the statute of repose unconstitutional....