Commonwealth, Department of General Services v. United States Mineral Products Co.

OPINION BY

Judge SIMPSON.

Was Monsanto Company’s (Defendant) product, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) defective, that is, unsafe for its intended use? After a five-week re-trial in this Court’s original jurisdiction, a jury impaneled from Northampton County answered this interrogatory in the negative, thereby absolving Defendant from liability for alleged PCB contamination of the former Transportation and Safety Building (Building) in the Capitol Complex in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Plaintiffs1 filed the instant post-trial motions seeking judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) on the issue…