Bayer AG said it was told by a jury to pay $100 million to some members of a group of former teachers and students at a Seattle-area school who said their exposure at the facility to toxic chemicals made by the company’s Monsanto unit caused brain damage and other injuries.

Bayer AG faces a $100 million jury verdict over PCB exposure at a Seattle school amid ongoing legal challenges related to toxic chemicals.

By Brendan Pierson and Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -A Washington jury on Tuesday ordered Bayer to pay $100 million to four people who say they were sickened by toxic chemicals known as PCBs at a Seattle-area school,

Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit stopped making toxic PCBs a half century ago, but the legal fallout lingers even as many of the building materials made with the chemicals are no longer used in US homes, schools and factories.