Parties File Competing Briefs In Monsanto’s Appeal Of $185M PCB Verdict

( January 25, 2024, 2:48 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 supplemental briefs in Washington state appeals court debating the applicability of the Washington Product Liability Act (WPLA).  Monsanto says the trial court’s refusal to apply the WPLA’s statute of repose was unconstitutional, while the teachers continue to argue that the trial court correctly applied Missouri law....