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Nov. 7, 2007
Jury Awards Workers $3.3 Million in Sterility Case
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has awarded $3.3 million to six of 12 Nicaraguan men who claimed that exposure to a pesticide used on banana plantations 30 years ago caused their sterility or low sperm counts.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has awarded $3.3 million to six of 12 Nicaraguan men who claimed that exposure to a pesticide used on banana plantations 30 years ago caused their sterility or low sperm counts.
The damages are to be paid by Dow Chemical Co., which manufactured the pesticide, and Dole Food Co., which ...
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