Attorney Closes Contentious PCB Trial Calling For $4.14B In Punitive Damages

( December 19, 2024, 10:13 AM EST) -- SEATTLE — Closing arguments in a lawsuit alleging injuries from exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at a Seattle area school concluded Dec. 18 in Washington state court, with plaintiffs’ counsel asking for $4.14 billion in punitive damages against Monsanto Co. for “generational harm” and Monsanto’s attorney objecting to that term while insisting that the evidence presented over the two-month trial is “inconsistent with the plaintiffs’ theory of Monsanto’s conduct.”...

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