By Clark Mindock
(Reuters) – A jury in Washington state on Monday ordered Bayer’s Monsanto to pay $857 million to former students and parent volunteers of a school northeast of Seattle who claimed chemicals made by the company called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, leaked from light fixtures and got them sick, according to an attorney for the plaintiffs.
The jury found the company liable for selling products containing PCBs used in the Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe, Washington.
(Reporting by Clark Mindock; Editing by Leslie Adler)