Osorio v. Dow Chemical Co.

This appeal concerns the enforceability, under Florida law, of an over-$97 million judgment a Nicaraguan court awarded 150 Nicaraguan agricultural workers, the plaintiffs here, against Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”) and Dole Food Company, Inc. (“Dole”), the defendants. The judgment compensated these workers for the physical and psychological injuries they purportedly sustained from exposure to a pesticide, dibromochloropropane, Dow supplied and Dole used on its banana plantations.

The plaintiffs seek enforcement of the Nicaraguan judgment under the Florida Uniform Out-of-country Foreign…