( November 26, 2024, 2:11 PM EST) -- SEATTLE — After getting a $185 million verdict against it for injuries from exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls
XE "polychlorinated biphenyls" (PCBs) at a Seattle area school overturned, Monsanto Co. filed a supplemental brief in the Washington Supreme Court contending that it should affirm the lower court’s ruling “except insofar as it held that Missouri punitive damages law applies.” Monsanto contends that the appellate court’s decision combined Washington and Missouri law and created “a previously unknown Frankenstein’s monster that reflects the policies of neither Washington nor Missouri and yields a windfall recovery” by “grafting Missouri’s punitive damages remedy — gutted of its protections for defendants — onto Washington’s generous rules of liability.”...