He recently won the verdict against Monsanto Chemical Co. on May 25th, 2016 which awarded $46,475,000 to the three plaintiffs. The claim was that Monsanto was aware of a link between polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBS) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, yet they continued to market the chemical compounds as safe until the EPA banned the use of PCBs in the later 1970s.