By Brendan Pierson

(Reuters) -U.S. juries ordered Wednesday Bayer AG (DE) The company will pay $62,000,000 to students and other people who claimed they were exposed. Monsanto Co. in a Washington State school building

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

Three teachers were involved in the trial that ended with a verdict of $185million in July. This included $135 million for punitive damages. Bayer appeals.

Bayer stated that it will challenge the verdict via post-trial motions and that the “undisputed evidence” in the case doesn’t support the conclusion that the plaintiffs were exposed at school to dangerous levels of PCBs.

Bayer was sued by almost 200 people (including parents, staff and students) over the contamination from PCBs that were found in Sky Valley’s fluorescent light ballasts. Nineteen more cases are currently being filed.

According to the plaintiffs, they have suffered from asthma attacks and cognitive impairment. Bayer claimed that Monsanto’s customers manufactured the lighting components decades ago and they were installed in the 1960s.

The verdict Wednesday, with $35 million in punitive damage, came after a trial that involved eight plaintiffs, including four students and three parents, as well as a member of the band who used to practice at the school.

Once, PCBs could be used to insulate electrical devices, flooring finish, and paint. They were banned by the United States government in 1979 due to their association with cancer and other diseases.

Bayer purchased Monsanto in 2018 for $63 billion. It produced PCBs between 1935 and 1977.

Federal Judge rejected Bayer’s proposal for a $648m settlement in separate lawsuits brought by cities and other plaintiffs over wastewater contamination with PCBs from Monsanto. According to the company, it anticipates that a revised deal will be approved.