Monsanto Hires Plaintiff Attorney To Get Customers To Pay PCB Litigation Costs

(July 25, 2024, 2:14 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. —Monsanto Co. on July 25 announced that it has retained plaintiff’s attorney Mark Lanier to be counsel of record in its lawsuit against companies that formerly purchased polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from Monsanto but that now refuse to defend or indemnify it in litigation pending throughout the country pertaining to alleged PCB contamination. The case is currently on appeal at the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals after a Missouri federal judge granted a motion to remand the case to Missouri state court....