Jury Orders Bayer to Pay $62 Million Over Contaminated US School Building

Jury Orders Bayer to Pay $62 Million Over Contaminated US School Building
This combination of file pictures created on September 14, 2016 shows the logo of German pharmaceutical giant Bayer (L, on September 8, 2016 in Leverkusen) and the logo of Monsanto at it's Belgian manufacturing site and operations centrer on May 24, 2016 in Lillo near Antwerp. PATRIK STOLLARZ,JOHN THYS/AFP/Getty Images
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A U.S. jury on Wednesday ordered Bayer AG to pay $62 million to students and others who say they were exposed to toxic chemicals made by the company’s predecessor, Monsanto Co, in a school building in Washington state.

The verdict was the second against Bayer over polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, at the Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe, Washington.