The scientists worked secretly for months, fearing discovery would thwart their work. No phone calls from the outside. No discussions with anybody, except the handful of people who knew. Sometimes ...

In a closely followed product liability case, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated a $4 million verdict awarded to a boy born without eyes after his mother was exposed to the fungicide ...

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Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Amy Steele Donner needs to review transcripts before deciding whether to sanction DuPont in a Benlate crop damage trial. A Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge said Friday that she ...

Farmer Carl Grooms won't let go. He keeps four cases of the "poison" he thinks ruined his strawberry fields in the early 1990s in the back seat of his first car, a 1969 Chevy Chevelle, parked in a ...

Analysts said Friday that a Volusia County fern grower’s victory over DuPont Co. in another Benlate crop damage case does little to resolve who is winning the ongoing multimillion-dollar legal battle.

DuPont Co. produced a defective fungicide, buried embarrassing company reports about it and then pursued a cover-up in the nation's courts, growers charged in a racketeering and fraud suit. The ...

<@SM><@SM>The DuPont Co. has won an appeal in a lawsuit by a grower who alleged the chemical company defrauded him when he settled claims for crop losses blamed on its fungicide Benlate.

Federal officials agreed Thursday to allow an “oversight committee” to monitor government efforts to determine if the controversial fungicide Benlate is still causing health problems on Florida farms.

Lawyers for DuPont Co. once wrote that confidential company information about its Benlate fungicide might come out if a Miami law firm kept pursuing claims over the product, says an attorney for a ...